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6 service. Loss than SOU,OOO died on the battle-field and in the hospitals. A over 200,000 perhaps have died Irom wounds received, or in sickness incurred in the service, or from the casualties or or dinary life; leaving 1,500,000 present voters who ' ought under the liag in the war for the Union. It is not assuming too much— no, nor enough —to say that this Convention represents fully one-hall of those soldiers. (Voices— I more than one half, ” “Two-thirds,” “Three fourths.”) I do not believe one-third of the persons who served in the Union army and navy ha\ e this day made up their minds to vote lor Gen. Grant. (“No,” “no.”) .But to make the estimate safe, I say that this Convention represents, at least one-half of these 1,500,000 soldiers who are now voters. Os that half, one half or more, like myself, are of convic tions so strong that they will vole for any Democratic candidate who has been named for the office. [Great applause. ] I refer to my position of’3B, not from vanity, but *only to give weight to the further estimate that the other half, 375,000 voters who served in the Union army, may be lost or won to the Democratic cause, as the nomi nation may prove wise or otherwise. — 1 Jjaughter and applause.] We have as sembled here in no spirit of dictation, but animated by a love lor the Union and Constitution, and a kindness toward al! who would aid iu securing a harmonious nomination and in securing a victory. I cannot permit myself to doubt that the Democratic Convention assembles iu the same patriotic spirit, and that they will present a candidate for the Presi dency, who, whether, he has served in our amy or not, incontestably sustained the war (great applause), and for whom all the soldiers and sailors can vote without seeming inconsistent. Gentle men, the Republican party represent no principles for which we fought. We fought not for negro suffrage. (No, no. A voice —We wouldn’t have given a cent for it.) Nor did we fight for white disfranchise ment. (No, no, never!) Nor for forcing unequal fellowship on any States of the Union. (Never, never!) Nor for chang ing the fundamental principles of the Government. [No, never.] Nor did we fight for the supremacy *of any party in the Union. [No, no!] Os the three thousand Union soldiers who lie in fields washed by waters oftheAtlantic and Pacific not one laid down his life for any of these objects. Os the fifteen hundred thousand of their surviving comrades, not one will say he would have risked his life for any of those objects. These theories of the Republican party are so prosecuted as to defeat the accomplishment f ‘ taose pur poses, and to inflict on the atinn evils as great as those which the war was waged to prevent. The Democratic party is now the only party true to the Constitution and the Union. If we would accomplish that for which we fought—if, in short, we would save the Union and restore to those States their liberties and their laws, we must unite with the Democracy. [Ap plause. j We must not ask of men what they have been.but what they are —not who loved and defended the Union, but who now defends it. [Applause.] In the path which the Democratic party treads to-day we see the footsteps of Washington, of Madison, of Governor Hamilton, and all the sages and heroes of the Revolution— of Webster, of Clay, of Andrew Jackson — [applause]—and of all those giants.of the generation just gone before us. And while it keeps that line of march, and bears al ways in view the Constitution and the Union, we can follow it with pride and with unfaltering footsteps. A Catholic Priest at tiie Democratic Convention. —On the second day of the great Convention in New York, at the opening of business, the Chairman thus declared himself: Gentlemen of the Convention, I have the pleasure of introducing to you Rev. \\ illiam Quinn, of New York, who will open our proceedings with prayer. THE PRAYER. Rev. Father Quinn, of New York, of fered the following prayer : 0, Almighty and Eternal God, creator of heaven and of earth, and of all things therein, who art infinite wisdom, and by whom just laws are administered, assist those in high authority on earth, that wholesome laws may be enacted, and that they may be administered with clemency and mercy, restraining vice, en couraging the practice of good works. We pray Thee, also, Almighty God, that our brethren and fellow-citizens throughout the United States may be blessed in the knowledge and sanctified in the observ ance of Thy Iloly Law; that they may be united together more and more in union and in the enjoyment of that peace which the world cannot give ; and that, after enjoying the things of this life, they may become partakers of joys that are eternal. We pray Thee, also, oh God, for those who are here assembled in convention from the different and most remote parts of our country, that their deliberations may be conducted in the spirit of harmony, of peace, of charity, and may have refer ence chiefly to the public good and well being of society —to the peace and happi ness and prosperity of our beloved land. W e pray Thee, also, Almighty God, that these, Thy children, who are now assem bled, whilst devoting their best faculties to these great and exalted interests, may not be unmindful of Thy presence or of the high responsibilities that they owe Thee. These, oh Almighty God, and other precious gifts and blessings, we prny Thee to shower down upon us, this day, and always, through the merits of Thy beloved Son. our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, world with out end. L.. T BLO M K & CO., PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, GA., JULY 25, 1868. TERMS: One copy, one year, invariably iu advance,....s3 00 “ “ six moutlia “ M 150 Single Copies 10 eta To Clubs.—To any person sending us a Club off 15, one copy, one year, will be given. To Clubs of 20, or more The Banner will be furnished at the rate of $2 50 per annum, 4®” In all cases the names must be furnished at the same time, and the cash must accompany each order. 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Sandersville, Ga. —E. A. SI LLIA AN, P. M. Millwood, Mo. —Dr. JOSEPH A. MUDD. Corpus Christi, Texas.—RlCH’D POWER. Mobile, Ala.—B. McGOYERN. Wilmington, N. C. —D. DRISCOLL. Bairdstown, Ga.—O. A. McLAUGHLIN, PM. its™ The paper can also be obtained from news and periodical dealers everywhere. jggp Specimen copies will be sent to auy address, on application. News Dealers. The Banner of the South can be obtained of the following News Dealers : P. QUIN, Augusta, Ga. C. C. NORTHPOP, Jr. & CO., Columbus, Ga, E. M. CONNOR, Savannah, Ga. W T . C. ESTELL, Savannah, Ga. PHILLIPS & CREW’, Atlanta, Ga. M. LYNCH, Atlanta, Ga. HAVENS BROWN, Macon, Ga. A. OMBERG, JR., Rome, Ga. — ..c __ —— ~ " P. QUINN. Charleston, S. C. W. DeLACEY, Charleston, S. C. B. DOSCHER, Charleston, S. C. E. C. HAGOOD, Selma, Ala. H. C. CLARKE, Vicksburg, Miss. KENNEDY & COCKERELL, Natchez, Miss. HENRY GWINNER, Canton, Miss. C. C. HALEY, New Orleans, La. W. C. COLLIER, Nashville, Tenn. GEO. HORTON, Nashville, Tenn. A. BEITLEFF, Nashville, Tenn. R. H. SINGLETON, Nashville, Tenn. PAUL, TAVEL & HANNER, Nashville, Tenn. PATTON & PAYNE, Chattanooga, Tenn. F. M. DOUGHERTY, Clarkesville, Tenn. W’. SCOTT GLORE, Louisville, Ky. BAZIL T. ELDER, St. Louis, Mo. J. J. WILLIAMSON, Washington, D. C. M. J. FOGARTY, Norfolk, Va. These gentlemen keep also on hand all the latest publications and periodicals of the day, and will promptly supply orders addressed to them. IRISH RADICALS, We have received a communication from Mr. Patrick Ahern, of Richmond. Va., in which ho says that our recent article on Irish Radicals did him and Messrs. Doherty, Delaney, and Miller, of that city, gross injustice, as they are not Radicals, and have never been. In that article we disclaimed any intention to do any of (the parties named any injustice, and now hasten to make the proper cor rection. We do so with incalculable satisfaction, as we could scarcely believe it it possible that a genuine Irishman, or true Catholic, could give himself, or sell himself, to the Radical party. It is also a pleasure to us to learn from Mr. Ahern that “there are no Irish Radicals in Rich mond, except two or three imported from the North.” Having apologised in advance for any misrepresentation contained in that article we can only regret our animadversions upon the gentlemen named, and extend to them our congratulations and gratifi cation that they are not amenable to the disreputable charges preferred against them. PERIODICALS- The Catholic World, for August, 1868.—This staunch and valuable publi cation, whose pages bear the impress of Father Ilecker’s ivonderful genius, is out for August. Father Ilecker is one of the most gifted men in this country, and his name and fame will some day rank with those of Bossuet, Fenelon, Wiseman, and Newman. Ilis zeal and energy are boundless, and he works unceasingly and untiringly for the cause of his holy Faith and the salvation of souls. With such an Editor and Manager, the World must be a publication of the highest value, as it is; and not only is it valued by Catholics, but even by our dissenting brethren, for its mild, dignified, conservative, but firm, zealous, and unyielding course. The high reputation of the periodical is well sustained by the number before us, its contents embracing a great variety of useful, interesting, and instructive papers. The price is $5 per annum, and all re mittances and business communications should be addressed to Lawrence Kehoe, General Agent, Catholic Publication So ciety, No. 126 Nassau Street, New York. Godey’s Ladies’ Book.— This old established and popular Magazine, for August, has been received by Mr. Quinn, of the Literary Depot. It is a very in teresting number, and will be well re. ceived by the ladies. Demorest’s Ladies’ Magazine and Young America. — Friend Quinn has favored us with copies of these two pub lications for August. The former is published in the interest of the ladies, and the latter for children. They are hand somely printed and well filled with sub jects of interest. Clark Institute. — We take the fol lowing extract from a letter received at this office from Winchester, Ky., where this Institute is situated : ‘‘The Commencement Exercises of Clark Institute took place 10th to 12th of June, inclusive. The pupils acquitted themselves with credit, especially the members of the Agatheridan Society. ‘The Conquered Banner' was sung with wuch expression.” It affords us pleasure to hear of the progress and success of Southern Institu- tions, and we congratulate the young ladies of Clark on the favorable report made of them. St. \ incent de Paul Society— Election of Officers.—At the Annual Meeting of the Literary and Benevolent Society of St. Vincent de Paul, held at their Meeting Room, on Sunday evening, I9th inst., the following gentlemen were elected officers of the Society for the en suing year; J. D. Kavanagh, President. G. E. Boulineau, Ist V. P. John McAdam, 2d V. P. Wm. McCabe, Recording Secretary. E. F. Samuels, Corresponding Scc’y. E. O'Donnell Treasurer. Tnos. Flanigan, Librarian. P. J. Quinn, Assistant Librarian. Trustees David Graham, L. Cos grove. John Cleary. Library Committee—Dan’l Galvan, E. Cosgrove, L. Mahoney. NEW ORLEANS (LA.) C9RRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. Modern Wonder Workings Aladdin Eclipsed—Doubtful Stability — Pro jected Jollification —The Presidency to he Attained only Through a Sea of Blood—The Republic Destroyed and Not Easily Be-Established—Slavery of the Southern Slates—Little Pros pect for a Favorable Change—A Day of Wrath in Store for Bigoted Mis ci'eants—Hope for Repentance. New Orleans, July 19, 1868. Banner of the South: All are rapidly reconstructing! Oh, yes. “The Union”—whatever that is— after being dead, destroyed, and out of existence, for seven or eight years, has, within the past few weeks, been recalled into existence, formed anew, and made alive again ! Why talk of the wonder working lamp of old fog)’ Alladin, when we progressive Yanks can perform such miracles of omnipotence with more non chalance than we witness the stage tricks of a mimic Harlequin ? In this dazzling sky of national greatness, however, there rises a little shadowy cloud of doubt as to the permanence of such rapid develop ments. Thoughtful minds, reflecting on the natural history of mushrooms and other ephemera, draw inferences not the most favorable as to the stability of all similar creations. The sky-rocket goes up very fast, very high, very brilliantly, and very noisily. Pop ! It’s gone for ever. Mayn’t it be the same with fungus Constitutions, State Governments, Unions, Ac.? The honest, patriotic people of this city have projected for to-morrow night a grand jollification, illumination, glorifi cation and speechification, with music, banners, procession, Ac., Ac., at the pros pective election triumph of November. This may be all very well, as far as the election of the people’s candidate; but, unless I be mistaken in my judgment of perverted human nature, their Presi dent can never reach his seat, unless through a shower of blood. And, then, he will not be a President; but, from the force of circumstances, he must exercise the prerogatives of a Kaiser of some sort; for, a Republic, destroyed by the people (as the late United States’ Repub lic was destroyed by the masses of the Northern and Western people), will never be so quickly re-established by the same masses. The late Republic was built up and sustained mainly through the wisdom, patriotism, courage, and eloquence, of the men of the South; and when the mob of Northern Puritans and fanatics grew jealous and discarded these, the natural result was, national confusion, usurpation, and destruction. The De structives, after reducing us of the South to slavery, have finished their work by enslaving every State in the Union ! for, to-day, there exists not a single independent State of the once glorious A f to galaxy. All of them are now obedient slaves to their late common servant, the Government at Washington ! No man on earth was prouder of, or more attached to, the once glorious Con federation of the United States of America than the writer, and no one can be more desirous than he to live once more under so grand a Constitution; but, candidly, I see no way to enjoy such a consumma tion, except through a radical conversion of the masses to a pristine sense of honor, right, and justice ; and this conversion seems to me to be very far oft’ in view of the wide-spread immorality, profligacy, and intemperance of all sorts that now flood the land. These social ulcers, I fear, can only be cured by the scalpel of Revo lution, a sharp application of which may restore a healthy circulation iu the veins of the body politic, after which we may look for national health, not before. These remarks apply chiefly to the North and its scalawag offshoots in thi.. latitude ; for my faith is, that we of the South have undergone our hottest fire of purification during and since the war, bu‘ that the day of wrath is still in store for the bigoted miscreants of other latitude^ According to the Catholic doctrine, that repentance may avert merited pun ishment, we can at least pray that such may be the course in regard to tho aforementioned sinners, and that they may yet repent in time to avoid their impending doom. Southern Radical. IRELAND AND THE CONFEDERATE STATES. The editorials of the Irish papers, in reference to the wrongs of Ireland, apply with almost equal appropriateness to those of the South. As an instance of this, we take tho following from the Dublin Irishman , of July 4th. It reads very much like a Southern newspaper article, with the exception of the reference to the Irish Church Establishment, and at the same time gives the reader some idea of what our Irish brethren have to endure at the hands of the British Government: THE ENSANGUINED SFEAR. A bloody lance must be shaken over the people, at the coming elections. That poor mockery of free election shall not be allowed to be even like the reality; the mockery of it must be plain, visible! unmistakable. The free electors of Ireland advance to choose their represen tatives at the point of the spear. Over their head, like the eword of Damocles suspended by a thread, hangs the ensanguined Lance, red with the blood of their brothers, ready to fall. Thus has the British Parliament or dained it. “Ye shall go, ye Helots,” we seem to hear it say, “ye shall elect men to repre sent you—you shall elect them freely, as our Constitution directs—and if you shall dare to let your free choice light upon another man than your landlord’s nominee, he shall tear down your home tree, and our minions shall support him , he shall drive you guarded to the poll, and our soldiery shall shake their red gleam ing lances round about you on every side! Choose now”— “Yea, more ! Bear in mind, that of those who shake those spears in your eyes, there are some who hurled them into the heart of your kindred—peaceful on their own very threshold—there are some whom a Jury has branded as guilty of manslaughter —as guilty of murder ! There, behold, they are amongst the armed men around you !—see you them 1 Your kinsman is dead, ho lies iu hi bloody grave; they ride around you armed, undetected, unsought for, unpun ished—unpunished for manslaughter— unpunished for murder ! Now, tbei. lances gleam by the side of your neighbor: now they glitter beside your heart Choose freely your representative.” By ninety-six to fifty-five—by an exco almost as great as the total number of those who proposed the abolition of mil tary terrorism at elections, the motion was rejected ! The British Parliament will not agree to lay down the Blood Lance. It must still hang over th. heads of the Irish people. And how could it have been expect to act otherwise ? Have they not been incessantly pratii■_ against exceptional measures for Ireland This was an occasion to test the honesty c their outcry. Military arc not so eu: ployed at elections in England; to pa the bill would have been to equalize th laws of Ireland and England ; to pass th bill would have been to annul an act o exceptional legislation. Wherefore, it w rejected, instantly, unhesitatingly, by sweeping majority. For their pratii:. was false, and their principle a lie. Ye hypocrites! ye have stolen th keys of the temple of power, and tl. rightful owners ye lock out, and coy with derision and contumely. Why has the Bloody Spear been '[ lifted again into prominence at tl juncture of affairs ? To save that Plunderer of tho Poor the Church Establishment ! For the British Parliament has n cast it down—the British Parliament not razed the abomination they brondo its injustice they admit, its atrocity th avow; they see that it is a horror—■ vampire, which sucks the blood of t living—a, ghoul which feasts upon tn flesh of the dead—and, looking upon with conscious glance, they decree : I- Perpetua ! Perpetual existence to this alxmiinatio: thisscandal of the world, has been doer by tiie British Parliament—has been * creed by the House of Peers by a mig’; ; . of one hundred and nuiety-tco