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bein£ disfranchised, and others still
were bought this spring, with rebel.
Where is relief now ? Echo answers
where? [Cheers. 1 Nowcome, my friends,
I know vou feel very badiy. 1 know you
don’t feel like associating with gentlemen ;
come now tz o home immediately, tell your
wife to put on you a clean shirt [laugh
ter and cheers], take agood wash with soap
Rod warm and tlico como uack anci
be free and decent white men Come to our
side of the question. We will try to for
give you, but you must come quick. I
admit that there are some of you I would
be very sorry to see come, for the reason
that I know our party would be betrayed
very soon ! Still you who didn’t know
any better, you who were sold, if you will
clean up and get on a clean shirt, we will
take you back. [Cheers and laughter.]
How many white men in Geor
gia are going to say by their vote
that Georgia is not an equal member of
this Union with Rhode Island, and that —
Virginia—proud old Virginia—that State
which has in its bosom the ashes of Wash
ington, and has furnished more Presidents
to this country than any other State, shall
not be the equal of Kansas ! I want to
know how many men in Georgia are willing
to say that proud old Virginia shall never
be the equal of Kansas. I want to kuow,
too, how many white men in Georgia are
willing to put upon the record, that pauper
ism shall fix the burdens for property, and
ignorance and vice shall prescribe the law
/'or intelligence and virtue ? Take this
concern up here —take the Radical wing of
it and tell me how much property in this
State they possess. [A voice “Joe Brown
has a good lot of it but he stole it. ”1 It is
true there is one man in the whole concern
that represents some property and it is
said he stole it. [Cheers and laughter.]
I repeat how much property do the Radical
members of this thing that imagined itself
a Legislature represent? [A voice “eight
dollars a day.”] Yes, but it does not rep
resent taxable property enough to pay
their per diem. And these men are to make
laws to tax disfranchised property holders
in this enlightened nineteenth century and
in this Christian country. Shame! Shame !
Is there a member of the Legislature who
hears me to-day ? Ah,to your shame be it
said, more than a hundred of you have so
recorded your names. Go, my friends, .and
take it back, fori charge you this day, in
this bright sun and in this central city of
Georgia, that if that record remains as you
have made it, whereby you have cove
nanted and agreed that these Southern
States shall be unequal members of this
Union and that the intelligent men of this
country shall be disfranchised and deprived
of their right to hold office,and . hat pau
perism shall fix the burden of taxation, and
vice and ignorance make laws for intelli
gence and virtue, you will go down to
posterity so infamous that when a legiti
mate Legislature shall have assembled
some unfortunate creatures who may be
compelled by Providence to call you fath
er, will apply to the Legislature to have
their names changed. I understand
some of you that voted for that
14th Article, and voted to ex
punge relief call yourselves Democrats.
You are vain ,deluded creatures if you
think that the Democratic door will be
ever open to receive you with such a name.
Such a vote is directly against the Demo
cratic platform, and directly for the
Radical platform, and must be repented
of and changed.
Are these, then, the terms of the new
Union ? terms of negro dominion, of
pauperism in power and ignorance in leg
islating. Isay such terms will never succeed.
The white people have refused to consent
to them, and I tell you that they will not
consent to them, and you can never estab
lish any government permanently in this
country against the consent of the white
people. The Supreme Court of the United
States made up their minds that the re
construction measures were unconstitution
al and void, but they were too
cowardly to declare the decision. This is
a melancholy fact, that the Supreme Ju
diciary of this country should have given
way so cowardly. But it will not always
be thus —it cannot lor ever refuse to pro
noance its decision. It is true, a Radical
Congress has taken away jurisdiction in
the McArdle case, but we shall have anoth
er case. A gentleman, who is the only real
Governor of Georgia, is making a case in
which jurisdiction is given by the Consti
tution. [Cries of three cheers for Jenkins,
given by the whole audience ] Yes, when
1 mention him, I mention a man who, in
any age or nation, is worthy to be a Gov
ernor ! I tell you, then, you who trade in
the respectability of your race—you who
are vendors of your people’s honor —I tell
you to-day that this very Court. will pro
nounce these acts unconstitutional and
void and everything done under them un
constitutional and void.
But we have a party now organized, a
strong and a glorious party, with states
men at its head and with correct principles
tor its platform. From Maine to Califor
nia the glorious tramp of the Democracy
is growing more and more distinct, and by
November a verdict will be pronounced by
the great freemen of America that shall
gladden the hearts of patriots now and
forever. [Cheers.] And when the people
shall have pronounced that verdict the
Court will take courage and pronounce
their judgment. Then—ah then, what will
become of you, ye isolated hypocrites; all
power threaten gone, treachery ex
hausted, Relief measures and Reconstruc
tion measures both dead, the Radical
party out of on earth will
you hide your shame thus stripped
naked to the gaze of the world in all your
unhidden infamy ! what will become of
you? “Ye generation of vipers, how
will you escape the damnation of hell?
That’s what is coining. Oh, it’s coming;
thank God, it’s coming— coming to the
cheer of patriots, and the dismay of traitors.
Yes, I tell you victory is coming. W e have
suffered and suffered much; our comrades
are sleeping. Ah, sleeping! many ot them
by the streams and in the valleys of Geor
gia. They are sleeping on the banks of the
deep rolling Mississippi; they are sleeping
all over Virginia, grander than the pyra
mids of Egypt and ricner than the mines
of India. [Enthusiastic cheers.] Spirit
of our departed braves, we are not dishon
ored yet! and though the vile, the low,
the corrupt and the perjured are seeking
to be our rulers, and have seized upon our
high places, the noble, the valiant and the
true are still left to us, and through all
our borders are taking courage and hymn
ing the notes of coming triumph, le
miserable spawns ot political accidency,
hatched by the putrid growth of revolu
tionary corruption into an ephemeral ex
istence —renegades from every law of God
and violators of every right ot man —we
serve you with notice this day, that this
victory is coming. The men ot the South
and the men of the North- —patriots every
where —are sending up their vows to heaven
that this is and shall forever be a Union of
equal States , and never a hateful
Union of unequal States- [Wild
cheers, lasting several minutes.] Men of
pride, men of character, women —thank
God —without a dissenting voice, and even
children in their play-grounds, are pro
claiming on hill top and in valley that
those whom God made superior shall not
be degraded to the dominion of the infe
rior.
A few more words and I will close. If,
as I now hope and believe, we shall again
have liberty aud law under the Constitu
tion, what shall be done with those who have
taken advantage of these corrupt times to
insult innocence, trample upon rights,.and
oppress helplessness? These criminals
will be among us, and must be assigned
appropriate positions. What shall we
do with them? Ye who have travailed
through the blood and losses and sorrows
of war for asserting nothing but what the
very framers of the Constitution taught
was your right; ye who have been taunted
and reviled as rebels and traitors; ye who
have been disfranchished in the land'ofyour
fathers and made exiles in the home ofyour
birth ; when this victory shall come and
we shall once more be free men and no
longer insulted and oppressed by miserable
vagabonds and renegades, what shall we
do with the criminals? I would not hurt
a hair of their heads, do them no personal
harm, and deprive them of no right. Give
them over —oh, give over the miscreants
to the inextinguishable hell of their own
consciousness of infamy. But some things
you must do for the protection of your
children and of yourselves, and for the
vindication ofyour honor. I affirm it and
I want it heard. It is going to be the law
of this country and a law more irrepealable
than the laws of the Medes and Persians.
Not one man that dares record his vote for
the inequality and vassalage of the South
ern States and the degradation of his own
race, ought ever to be received into a
decent family in Georgia or in the South
now or hereafter. [Cries of “never. ’ ’ | And
this rule we can make now. If we have
not the power to help make the laws for our
Government or for society, thank God
we can at least pass social laws for our
own homes. I charge you this day, as you
honor your children and your household,
and would preserve your good name for
your posterity, never suffer a single native
renegade.who votes for the vassalage of
these States, and the disgrace of your
children and your race, to darken your
doors or to speak to any member of your
family. [Cries of “good,” “that’s right,”
“hurrah.”] You condemn the poor vic
tim to the Penitentiary who steals a horse
or a hundred dollars, and yet these mis
erable creatures have sought to bargain
away everything that you have or can
value. You scorn the criminal who has
violated the penal laws of your . country.
These miserable renegades are faithless to
every law of Heaven and of earth, aud
have used every means to sell you to those
who hate you, and to place your lives and
your all in the power of the ignorant and de
based. Another thing I insist shall be done:
A people who will not resent such foul
innovations of their right are not worthy
of freedom. [A voice “true. 1 iou have
been helpless—your great men have been
silenced; you surrendered your arms to
what you thought was a gallant foe ; you.
surrendered them under the assurances of
protection, and yet these men, your own
citizens many of them, who hurried you
to war have taken advantage of your pov
erty and helplessness, and of the presence
of the bayonet ; they have invaded your
households, they have stolen your prop
erty ; they have robbed you of your
goods; they have joined the negro and the
stranger to tax, iusult aud oppress you,
and they have, contrary to the laws of tne
land, forced into dungeons and before
military co.omissions the proud freemen
of this country. You have been powerless
to prevent these things. But my vow is
recorded, and I shall redeem it if
I find the people willing to sus
tain me. Men who . have trampled
upon the rights of the citizens of Georgia
at a time when the laws were paralized
shall feel the power of that restored law
when liberty is reawaked. Ye vile miscre
ants of the Convention, who stole the
money of the State to pay your per diem , I
give vou notice that you sha.i pay it back.
And there is a good legal principle here
which I want you to remember, anu that is
that where a number of men band them-
selves together for the commission of a
common purpose, each one is responsible
for wiiat all the others do or get. [Tre
mendous cheering, j And, therefore, every
man who took a portion of that stolen
money is liable for every cent that negroes
and carpet-baggers received, and we are
going to make them pay it. Ye constitu
tion makers, ye men that spruDg at one
bound from the penitentiaries of the
country to frame constitutions for honest
people, ye men who oscillate from grand
jury rooms with charges of perjury upon
you up to legislative halls and other high
places in the land, I serve you with notice
to day that the money shall be repaid with
interest. And you who are depriving the
people of liberty, threatening and conspir
ing against their lives—(hold me responsible
for what I say)—l tell you that the day is
coming when the Judges shall be in the
prisoners’ box and the persecutors shall be
clamoring for mercy. “Thou shalt not take
the life or liberty or property of a citizen
except according to the laws of the land
and by the judgment of his peers,’’ is the
first and great commandment in liberty’s
decalogue, and upon it all the other com
mandments hang. It was given as a con
cession from power to the people more than
six hundred years ago at the political Iloreb
of Anglo-Saxon history, and no man from
that day has violated or disregarded it who
was not a tyrant or a traitor, or both.
[Great cheers.] No man in English his
tory ever trampled upon those sacred
rights without being called to account.
Wicked men have the power now; they
have bayonets to protect them, and they feel
they can insult and oppress with impunity
forever.
So did Judas feel safe when he helped
eat the Lord’s supper with the Lord.
Cataline held power in Rome. Arnold once
held a commission in the American army.
And you—you vile creatures, whose infamy
no epithet can describe and no precedent
parallel—you will find your names more
odious than.those of Cataline and Arnold
combined. I Immense applause and long
laughter.] Return then, the day of grace
is almost passed. Reform now and we
will forgive you. Ido not want a single
man except a carpet-bagger to vote for this
Chicago platform. And you, members of the
Legislature, I will talk to you kindly—you
who voted for this infamy the other day—
the Fourteenth Amendment —mark what I
tell you. At the peril of your respectability,
go and take it back. It is a record whose
stain will reach your children.
And you who call yourselves Democrats,
and who yet are lying round here seeking
and bargaining to get office from a Legis
lature which every line of Democratic
principles declares to be an illegal and ille
gitimate body, shame, shame upon you.
If this usurping Governor and Assembly
had sufficient regard for the country’s wel
fare to tender positions to Democrats, even
the acceptance of such positions would
present a question for serious consideration.
While I will not condemn those who differ
with me, I must be permitted to say for
myself that no earthly consideration or
power could induce or force me to so far
recognize them as to accept an office at
their hands. For myself, I hold them to
be nothing but wicked, willful and corrupt
usurpers of power, by authority of none
but strangers and deluded negroes, and
wanton conspirators to subvert the legiti
mate government of our State, and as such
l shall hold myself in readiness to visit
upon them, by proper legal process, the
penalties due to their crimes. I do not,
of course, include in these remarks the
Democratic members. These are there to
prevent the mischiefs I announce. Their
positions are necessarily unpleasant. But
they are making sacrifices by the votes of
our people, and are patriots, doing all the
good they can, or rather preventing all the
evil they can, and merit our regard. But
those who voluntarily come forward to beg
office of such a body; above all, those who,
either in the Legislature or out of it, make
bargains with Radical usurpers to get of
fice for themselves or their friends —to all
such I repeat, shame, shame upon you!
One thing more will be necessary to a
proper expression of the abhorrence of our
people for the infamous attempt to destroy
the Union by destroying the equality of
the States, and for the measures, authors
and advocates of this whole scheme to de
grade the States and people of the South.
W hen liberty shall return, when the law
shall be again respected, and good men
shall again be our rulers, we must gather
all the journals, and constitutions, and
enactments, and records of every character
of the conventions and assemblies, thus
forced upon us by force, and lraud, and
usupation, and, catching fire from Heaven,
burn them up forever!
And right here, my countrymen, I want
you to understand that lam a candidate
but for one office on earth. [Several voices
“name it and you shall have it. 7 ’ ] When
the glorious day shall come and the free
women, and the free men and the laughing
children and the proud youth of Georgia,
shall gather together to fire the miserable,
hideous record of infamy, let the office be
mine to kindle the flames. ! Tremendous
cheers lasting several minutes.] That is
all I want. I would have my children
know, I would have my children’s children
to kuow, if my humble life shall be remem
bered so long, that from first to last,
through thick and through thin, I fought
this attempt to disgrace our people and
that at the sequel I kindled the fire that
consumed the infamous record of its ex
istence. That will be a proud day, my
countrymen, that will be a glorious day
when you and I can look each other in the
face and feel as no Grecian ever felt as
no Roman ever felt, that we have passed
through the most trying ordeal in the
1 annals of humanity, and, as a people, have
come out gold—pure gold. Take courage,
my countrymen, that happy day shall come.
4he Union of equal States as made by our
fathers shall be ours again. The disunion
of unequal States which Radical treason
seeks to make shall not be. With the records
of the vile attempt, we will build the bon
fire of the Constitution’s triumph. By its
light we shall read joy in each other’s faces.
Around the burning pile we shall gather
our wives and little ones and strike up
anew the song of our deliverance, and as
the ascending smoke shall rise high in the
skies, it will wake the notes of our heroes
in bliss, and Heaven and earth shall ring
with the universal sy m phony: ‘ ‘Well done!
Well done! noble people! Through sor
rows the most bitter, through trials the
most severe, through misfortunes mul
tiplied ana prolonged, you have passed
with your honor unsullied growing brighter
and brighter. Enter again into the joys
of freedom here and finally into the realms
of the good hereafter.”
Mr. Hill took his seat amidst the most
vociferous applause.
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