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6 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., PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, GA., AUGUST 15, 1868. TERMS : One copy, one year, invariably in advance,....s3 00 “ “ six months “ “ 150 Single Copies 10 cts To Clubs. — To any person sending us a Club of 15, one copy, one year, will be given. To Clubs of 20, or more The Banker will be furnished at the rate of $2 50 per annum, In all cases the names must be furnished at the same time, and the cash must accompany each order. Dealers will be supplied on liberal terms. ■ ♦ ♦ All Communications, intended for publication must be directed to the Editor, Rev. A. J. Ryan ; and all Business Communications to the Publishers, E T Blome & Cos., Augusta, Ga. jgy- A few Advertisements will be reoeivod, and in serted on liberal terms. To the Ladle* of the South. We want the Ladiee of the South to aid us in ex tending the circulation of The Banner of the South; and, in order to give them some encourage ment to do so, wc offer the following premiums : L To the Lady sending us the largest list of subscribers (at $3 per au num,) by the Ist of October next— a Sewing Machine, worth SGO,OO 2. To the Lady sending us the second largest list of subscribers (at S3 per annum, )by the same date—a Music Box, w'orth $25.00 3. To the Lady sending us the third largest list of subscribers (at S3 per annum,) by the sameddat a Work Box, worth SIO.OO 4. To the Lady sending us the fourth largest list of subscribers (at $3 per annum, )by the same date—a Photo graphic Album, worth $5.00 And a copy, ,xie year, (free), to the getter up of the lists t)3»The cash to accompany all subscriptions. TO THE CHILDREN. 1. To the Boy or Girl sending us the largest list of Cash Subscribers, by the Ist of October next, (at S3 per annum,) we will give a choice lot of Ju venile Books valued at $lO, with one copy, cne year, of Young Catholics’ Friend, or Burke’s Weekly, as they may prefer. 2. To the Boy or Girl sending us the next largest list, by the same date, a set of Juvenile Books worth $5, or a Gold Pen of the same value, a3 • they may prefer. 3. To the Boy or Girl sending us the third largest list by that date, One Years subscription to The Banner of The South free. In any case where the money is prefered, it will be given, equivalent to the value of the premium offered. L. T. Blome k Cos., Proprietors & Publishers. .News Dialers. 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Those gentlemen keep also on hand all the latest publications and periodicals of the day, and will promptly supply orders addressed to them. Agents for The Banner of the South : General Traveling Agents.— Lic uti W. A. W RIGHT, W. B. FITZGERALD, A. WINTER, and JNO. A. COL VIN. Memphis, Tenn.—JOS. LOCHE. St. Martinsville, La.—-J. T. HEARD. Charleston, S. C, —FDW. LEE, and Copt. JAMES ARMSTRONG. Savannah, Ga. —E. M. CONNER. Macon, Ga.—C. J. CAREY. Atlanta, Ga.—T. C. MURPHY and W. J. MANN. West Point. Ga. —P. GIBBONS. Greensboro’, Ala.-A. E. WILLLOLS,. Beacon office. MHiii mtm roma. Cutlibert, Ga.—G. F. BUCHANAN. Manning, 8. C.—ARTHUR HARVIN. Columbus, Ga.—JAS. RYAN. Nashville.—W. C. COLLIER, A. SETLIFE. Knoxville, Term.—JAS. MALOY. Louisville, Ky.—W. SCOTT GLORE. Pine Bluff, Ark.—JOHN P. MURPHY. General Agent lor Florida.—J. EVANS FROST, Jack sonville, “ Mercury” office. Clarkesville, Tenn.—J. W. FAXON, Montgomery, Ala.—W. J. RYAN. Jacksonville, Fla.— C. C. BISBEE Huutevillc, AIa.—DAN’L O’C. MURPHY. Columbia, S. C.—PAT’K FAHAY. Petersburg, Va.—ROBT. KENNY. Richmond, Va.—JOHN H. "WALSH. Washington, D. C.—J. J. WILLIAMSON. MaysviUe, Ky.—Dr. E. W. RUTn. Baltimore, Md.—Lierrt. A. McK. PITTMAN. Sandersville, Ga.—E. A. SULLIVAN, P. M. Millwood, Mo.— Dr. JOSEPH A. MUDD. Corpus Christi, Texas.—RlCll’D POWER. Mobile, Ala.—B. McGOVERN. Wilmington, N. C.—D. DRISCOLE Bairdstown, Ga.—O. A. McLAUGHLIN, P M. tar The paper can also be obtained from news and periodical dealers everywhere. Specimen copies will be sent to any address, on application. 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 week’s Banner. The inducements of 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