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can Union cannot drive manhood from
their breasts. [x\pplause.] Tell them that
these men were brave and generous to the
last, hating their enemies, loving their
friends, and, even if ft had been necessary,
from the scaffold they would have hurled
defiance into the teeth of their oppressors.
They would have welcomed every noble
and generous heart to the bouth with a
cordiality they extend aione to those they
love. [Applause.] Tell them, moreover,
Georgia has a home for every true man of
the North. She has a welcome for every true
man that will come to live among us and
with us and be of us. But she has neither
a true welcome nor a false hospitality to
offer to those who come to wrong and op
press them, and when you have told
them all this, tell them that in
Georgia there was but one voice,
one heart, one soul,one spirit. When you
turn your back upon the State, looking
through all her length and breadth, upon
her mountains, in her valleys, in her cities,
in her towns, along the public highways,
in the public and priv ite workshops, you
dont’t leave behind you one single white
Radical advocate of the Chicago platform
who was worthy of the respect and confi
dence of a gentleman. [Applause.]
And when you are asked by your people
what are the views and sentiment* and
purposes of the people of the South, do us
the justice to pronounce the charge that
we are hostile to the Union and the Con
stitution, and that we desire to renew the
bitter conflict through which we have just
passed, as false and unfounded. Tell them
that when you heard the people of Geor
gia asserting their claims to perfect equalU
ty in the Union under the Constitution,
you could not find it in your heart to deny
the justice of their claims, and that the
effort of the Radical party as manifested
in their Congressional Legislation and
affirmed in the most offensive shape in
their Chicago platform, should not find
among the honest and true men of the
North either an advocate or an apologist-
Tell them that you believe it to be wrong,
and that if they had been among us and
witnessed what you have witnessed, they
would unite with you in condemning the
injustice whffh these things have done
to us.
Tell them that the people of the South
are ready arid anxious for the restoration
of perfect harmony and conciliation, when
ever the terms upon which the restoration
is offered, are such as brave and honorable
men can accept —that they long for peace,
but it must not be linkenl with dishonor
arid the people of the North should bear in
mind when they offer to us terms of hu
miliation, they not only wrong us. but
themselves also. Tell them that as you
communed with our people you found
that the aspirations of our young men, the
prayers of our old men, and the ardent de
sire of all, were to restore a violated Con
stitution, cement a weakened Union, and
unite all the people of this great country
in a common and cordial brotherhood. —
Tell them these things, and if you pre
sent the picture faithfully, you will have
made a stronger argument, and a more
powerful appeal for Seymour and Blair,
than lean put in your mouths to-day.—
This, this is the picture that I want you
to present.
AN APPEAL TO THE ERRING.
Fellow-citizens, I come to-day in the
spirit of tolerance. I want to bury in
Georgia bitter recollections of the past.
You and I ave differed for days and for
years—since the hour in which my voice
was first raised in the public meetings of
my country. I come to-day to present you
a platform, present candidates, and invite
every good and true man in Georgia to
join with me in the good work. Come —if
you have gone far astray come back. The
doors are wide open, wide enough,
broad enough to receive every white man
in Georgia, unless you should discover
him coming to you creeping and crawling
under the Chicago platform. Upon them
there should be no mercy. They have dis
honored themselves and sought to dishon
or you. Anathematize them. Drive
them from the pale of social and political
society. Leave them to wallow in their
own mire and filth. Nobody will envy
them, and if they arc never taken out of
the gully until I reach forth my hand to
take them up, they will die in their natu
ral element. [Laughter and applause.]
But all others come that have differed
about reconstruction. I could not go with
you. I thought you were wrong. We
differed in reference to the constitutional
amendment. I thought you were still
further from the path. But my friends,
come now —come, retrace your steps.
You stand upon the bank ; you
have taken the last step you can
take and recover lost ground. Come out
from among this people, I appeal to you
in the name of the past, in the memories
of the past, in the hopes of the future.
Sons of Georgia, come out from among this
people. I appeal to you in their name.
Oh! can you stand here and look upon
these faces full of mourning for the past,
full of grief over that which cannot be re
deemed ? But yet there plays a pleasant
smile; a beam of hope comes gushing from
each eye. Let it gush upon the altars of
your heart, rekindle the flames that have
almost gone out, and here to-day let all
Georgia’s sons come and unite in this great
and glorious work. Her banner hangs
drooping. Her proud insitutions live only
m memory. \\ hen she was a white
man’s government she was proud,
honored, happy, prosperous. Come,
an l at this altar unite with me, and,
by the grace of Heaven, let us once more
make Georgia a white man’s government.
It is for you to say, by your votes and by
your actions, whether the sun of her great
ness shall again reach to meridian splen
dor. Old men come. Mothers, to your
altars, and carry your daughters with you.
Ask the prayers of Heaven upon your
friends, upon your fathers, your husbands,
and sons. Young men, in whose veins
the red blood of youth runs so quickly, let
the ardor of your temperaments, phe pul
sations of your hearts, all beat for Georgia!
Your old State, the State of your fathers,
that holds in reserve honors innumerable
for you and them, come ! Come one and
all, and let us snatch the old banner from
the dust, give it again to the breeze, and,
if needs be, to the God of battles, and
strike one more honest blow for constitu
tional liberty. [Prolonged and enthu
siastic applause.]
L. T BLOMR & CO.,
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AUGUSTA, GA., AUGUST 15, 1868.
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Political. —We give in our paper
several political extracts from Northern
journals on trie situation. In some of
them the terms “rebellion,” and “crime of
the South” are sometimes found. They
are not very agreeable, it is true ; but
the writers, though they believe that the
war for Southern Independence was re
bellion, and that that rebellion was a
crime, are, nevertheless, supporters of the
Constitution, and defenders of the rights
of the South against the usurpations and ty
ranny of the dominant party. Hence,
we can overlook these unjust expressions,
in the spirit of kindness and justice
manifested towards us now by so many
of our Northern brethren. The cause of
the South, in the late struggle, is our
cause—we of the South will never let its
memories perish; but the cause of the
Constitution is the cause of the whole
Union, and we must aid the good and true
people of the North by all the means in
our power to restore it to its supremacy
and the Union to its prosperity. The
articles to which we have thus referred,
are not only interesting, but effective,
and we, therefore, give them the benefit
of our circulation, that they may accom
plish all the good possible which we can
aid them in accomplishing.
Explanation —We publish in the
Editorial department of this week’s
Banner, a letter from Mr. Delaney, of
Richmond, Va., relative to a recent arti
cle which appeared in this paper on Irish
Radicals. The letter was, improperly,
addressed to Rev. A. J. Ryan, and should
have appeared in this department of the
Banner, as Father Ryan was not the
author of that article, nor did it appear
on the Editorial page. He does not in
dulge in personalities ; and he believes
that men have (according to American
principles,) a right to be Radicals or
Conservatives, as they may elect. We
make this statement in justice to Father
Ryan. §
St. Agnes’ Academy for Young La
dies. —We invite special attention to the
advertisement of this Institution, in this
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fered to parents and guardians, by the
Sisters of St. Dominic, who have this
Academy in charge, are very strong.
Delightfully situated in a healthy locality,
commodious buildings, and accomplished
teachers, are some of the inducements.
Then, there is the parental care exercised
over the pupils by the good Sisters and
the reduction of the rales of tuition,
which are moderate enough. We com
mend this Academy to the attention of
our readers.
Fast and Feast of Obligation.—
Next Friday, being the vigil of the As
sumption, will be a fast day of obliga
tion for all Catholics who are not dis
pensed, and Saturday will be the Feast
of the Assumption, which all the faithful
are obliged to keep and sanctify the
same as Sunday, by abstaining from ser
vile works and attending Mass.
The Presse announces that a sabre for
the Prince Imperial, (aged twelve years
and four months,) is being manufactured
at Sollingen, in Prussia. On one side
his name is engraved ; the other bears j
the well-known line of Per anger : “On \
parley a de la gloireP
Grateful. —lt is exceedingly grateful
to us to receive so many letters of approval
of the Banner, as we do constantly.
They encourage us to go on in the good
work in which we have enlisted, and
cheer us in the gloomy hours which dark
en our once prosperous and happy land.
A lady writing from Charleston; says:
“It should be a duty of all true South
erners to keep up a paper so unflinching
as yours is to sustain our Southern
honor.”
And a gentleman in Texas, writes to
us as follows:
Cotton Gin, Texas, )
July 25th, 1868. j
A. J. Ryan, Editor of "The Banner of
the South :
Brave and noble patriot.
******
There is not a man who lives in the land
of Dixie, (Gen. Lee, my noble com
mander, not excepted,) whom I admire
more than the author of the “Conquered
Banner,” and the “Sword of Kob’t. Lee.”
Prayers will ascend God’s throne for
your success, and a long and happy pil
grimage upon earth. If I was able I
would remit you SI,OOO.
I will get you up a large club if I can.
I would send you the subscription price
of your paper for a year, but I do not ex
pect to remain here longer than this
year. Hoping, my dear Sir, that you
may be abundantly successful in your
holy mission on earth, and that you may
live to a ripe old age, I remain
Your devoted admirer.
L. C. C.
We could add many more of a similar
encouraging character, but time and
space will not permit us to do so at pre
sent.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Pleasing Indications of Democratic
Success — “ Southern Outrages ’’
Democratic War Cries—The Ken
tucky Election—Governor Warmoth,
of Louisiana, and his Record—Radi
cal Fraud Doomed to Eatl — “The
Busy Bees”—Brounds Retribution —
The Effect of the 14 th Amendment —
Hon. Mr. Hill's Speech—Nothing to
he Gained by Compromise—False
Democrats—The Negro Governments
Destined to Destruction.
New York, Aug. 10, 1868.
All indications point to the assured
triumph of Seymour and Blair in No
vember next. The tone of the Radical
papers of the North is despondent; that
of the Democratic, aggressive, impetuous,
and enthusiastic. Outrages in the
South, those “disloyal outrages” upon the
“poor freedman and the suffering Union
ist,” of which we hear so much, and see
so little, are now the main reliance of the
Grant men, and every utterance from the
South is eagerly caught up, and, if capa
ble of it, perverted to our damage. In
this way, some little harm has been done
to the good cause, but not much; vague
cuckoo cries of raw-head-and-bloody
bones murders not having much chance
upon the stump, or in the Press, when
opposed to the fiery tide of indignant ar
gument and eloquence the Democracy are
pouring forth on every side. “What
have you done with the money ?”—“Why
have you disfranchised the Southern
whites ?’’—“Wherefore do vou arm the
Negroes?”—and “Do you really intend
these carpet-bag scoundrels are to rule
us ?”—are the war-cries of Democracy,
and it is almost impossible to estimate
their force.
It was thought Kentucky might pos
sibly give fifty thousand Democratic
majority, and, lo ! the question now is,
whether it will not be an hundred thou
sand, when all the votes are in ? The
effect of this unexpected majority is
already apparent.
One other current topic must, also,
have a word, before speaking immediately
of Georgia affairs. The call by this
fellow, Warmoth, who falsely styles
himself Governor of Louisiana, for troops,
has awakened some enquiry as to his
record; and, no laterjthan this very day, I
was told by an old Louisianian, that
Grant had, in speaking of this Warmoth,
said to him, “the G—d and and rascal, I
kicked him out of the army myself at
Vicksburg !”—the truth appearing to be
that this pretended Governor was court
martialed out of a Missouri regiment, at
that place, for falsehood. A pretty orca
turc this is to malign the people of the
gallant Pelican State. The explanation
of this call for troops, as it reaches me, is
that Louisiana, as things stand now, will
go for Seymour and Blair by 15,000
majority, and bayonets are needed to
keep the white men from the polls. But
all is in vain. The hoarse murmurs of ;
the storm are rising on the breeze, and I
this whole dirty fabric, founded on the
quicksands of fraud, is destined, ere the
year goes out, to ignominiously fall be
fore the blast.
It is pleasant to know that, in the so
called Senatorial election, two of the
busy Bees have come to grief. One of
them is not worth redemption from con
tempt by the mention of his name, but as
for Brown, there is a poetic retribution in
his ruin. It is the first decided defeat of
his life, and he will never recover it.
Having used him so far as desirable, the
Radicals have cast him off, and as his
own people long ago rejected him, he has
now nowhere to go. Retribution is a
truthful word, and this man will yet drain
the bitter dregs of the chalice just com
mended to his lips.
There is one point in Georgia politics
worthy of special note. By the second
section of the so-called 14th amendment
it is provided, that, if the people in any
State are denied the right to vote for
Executive and Judicial officers therein
that State shall lose its right of repre
sentation in Congress; and as the pre
tended Legislature of Georgia has just
elected Judges of the Supreme and Dis
trict Courts, all Judicial officers, of
course, and a Secretary of State, Comp
troller General, Treasurer, and Surveyor-
General, all Executive officers, it follows
that this action has, under this 14th
Amendment, robbed the State of the
right to elect Members of Congress. In
proof of this, see Art. IV, Sec. 2, Par. 7,
and Art. V, Sec. 9, Par. 1, of the Negro
Constitution.
These scoundrels do not know enough
to keep from cutting their own throats.
It is with great pleasure that the writer
has read the speech of Hon. Ben. 11.
Hill, as lately published in the Banner
of tiie South. In this far-off region the
Banner, instinct with passionate devo
tion to the good cause, is always welcome
on its weekly visits, but the number hav
ing this address was most particularly so.
Nothing is to be gained by compromise
with these carpet-bag rogues, and in
teaching this great fundamental truth in
politics, Mr. Hill has done excellently
well. Every* effort made to “elect good
men” as it is called, that is to flinch before
this atrocious villainy, lias resulted alone
in mortification and dsitress, and, as the
latest exemplification, I may mention the
votes to ratify the 14th Amendment, cast
by men who called themselves Democrats,
in the pretended Legislature. How did
these men dare to do such a thins as
that ? If it had not been for them'the
dirty trick could never have passed, and
as I have heretofore shown, that it was
by Democratic members also, in the bo
gus legislature of Florida, that this
amendment was adopted, it appears that
in two States this measure passed by
those very men who w r ere trusted to op
pose it. For one I have no belief in
these Negro Governments, and would
scorn to hold or seek even so much as a
sub-assistant-deputy constablesliip under
them. They are all wrong. They are
destined to a speedy and shameful ex
tinction, and happy is he who, in that
day, shall never have sullied himself with
any contact with the dirty’ barbarism.
Tyrone Powers
NEW ORLEANS (LA,) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
The Letter of the 29t/i— "Something in
it" after all—The Delaware Boatman
— Funny Occurrences — A Fair Inci
dent—Raising Dolt Babies — Rr-
President Davis' Property — A S ‘ -
gestion—An Original Simile— Ti 1
Question of Arms in the South.
New Orleans, Aug. 8, 1868.
Banner of the South:
Notwithstanding my best efforts to the
contrary, my “empty” letter of the 24th
ult., appeared with “ something in it”
after all. But I want the world and his
wife to know that either yourself, or your
foreman, or your compositor, or mayhap
your devil, must have the credit of intro
ducing that outrageous boatman who
was lately tried for damaging the Dela
ware river by his frequent attempts v
“ pull up the stream.” Hereafter, when
I make such an effort to write a perfectly
stupid letter, just suited to the dog-day.-,
I don’t want its native stupidity marred
by any such brilliant interpolations.
“Why, bless you ! 1 could tell of
funny occurrences every day ; but 1
maintain that anything like fun in they
days of sunstroke and scaly wag , i
manifestly out of place, and should be se
verely let alone.
But for this prohibitory state of affair'.
I might tell you how Terence 51 , at
a late Fair here, in the midst of agroiq of
laughing damsels, plunged his hand d~ j
down into a picayune grab-bag, and
dragged from its inmost recesses a mon
strous. undressed, ffhina doll-baby, about
one inch in height! The young Indie-, of
course, told him that, as his prize could
be of no service to a bachelor like him h