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6 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. 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It is with sincere pleasure that we are enabled to correct the impression that there were any respectable Irish Radicals in Richmond. We have recently re ceived communications from Messrs. Thos. Colligan and Henry Miller (the latter gantleman, by the way, is not an Irishman/ but a German,) and both repel, with the indignation which we know they must justly feel, the bare suspicion that they were with that party. No one can regret more than we do, any injustice done them, and we hasten to repair the injury, and express our unfeigned gratification at their vindication of their characters from the foul aspersion. OUR BOOK "TABLE. Father Cleveland : or, The Jesuit. By the authoress of '• Life in the Clois ter,” “Grace OTlallaran,” “ The Two Marys,” etc., etc. “ Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander outers.”— Ci/ml/elmt. Boston : Patrick Donahoe. 1868. We are indebted to the publishers for a copy of this little work. 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