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6 that makes no difference now; we wilt beat them anyhow ; but I would be glad to see one who once acted so well, rescue his character from the stain of Radicalism. These Radicals have no hope of carry ing Georgia. Their, object in adopting the measure was, by giving the colored people the right to vote, to carry the Presidential election. They now discover they cannot do that. They find that the colored people are joining the Democratic party, and or ganizing Democratic clubs, with hundreds in them, everywhere. And now, finding that their tricks have been discovered, like all rogues, they are trying to do worse. They are now trying to take away the right to vote from both white and black. In Florida, they have passed a bill depriv ing both white and black from voting in this election. What do you think of that ? They care nothing for the colored man, but for his vote —and would just _ as soon give the right to mules, anything, everything, that would vote for tliem. In Alabama the same kind of bill has been passed ; but, fortunately, there they have a Southern man for Governor, Mr. Smith, who is a little better than most of his party, and he vetoed it. I know him, and I begin to have some hopes of his recovery. W ell, they made a great fuss about it, but they had to sub* init. They cannot frighten or buy up the white people, and they find that the color ed people are waking up to their wicked ness. They are in a terrible bad box. In Atlanta they have also tried to pass a bill similar to # those of Florida and Alabama, but it caunot pass.. Poor Bryant says that several of the Radicals in the Legislature have turned Democrats; and Bullock will not have a chance to veto the bill—though I don’t think he would if he had a chance. No, in Georgia they cannot take away from the colored man the right to vote ; you will have that right ; but mark it— mark what I tell you, the Radicals will take it away from you, if they have the power. Now, then, they are getting desperate ; what’s to be done ? Disgrace and shame are staring them in the face. I’ll tell you what their last card will be, and I want to warn you people of it. They are sending emissaries over the country, who are en deavoring to make the Northern people believe that we are unwilling to live under the Union —that we are trying to get up another secession ; that the spirit of G 1 is prevailing here yet. Poor fellows ! they could not charge anything of 1861 on me, because I was then a Union man. Yes, they are doing all they can to im press their falsehoods on the public mind. I have seen my own speeches perverted and misquoted in the Northern papers; these vile creatures have telegraphed their venomous falsehoods abroad, and every thing that can be tortured into the shape of a “rebellious spirit,” as they call it, is used to make false charges against us. It is important that these things should be understood ; and I hope that tliere is no difficulty in understanding me. I know I am but a plain, humble man ; but I want to put the Southern people on their guard against these creatures. When you laid down your arms and took the oath to support the Constitution, you meant it in good faith ; but }-ou could not support measures, the authors of which themselves, declared to be unconstitution al. You couldn’t support them and keep your oaths as honest men ; because every man who took that oath, to support the Constitution of the United States, and then supports these measures, is guilty of perjury. Why ? Because the Constitution is one thing, and Radical reconstruction is auother and right opposite thing. You cannot support both. You cannot worship. God and Mammon. When I make this charge, I mean it for those people who voluntarily support and intend to carry out these measures. If you mean right, I don’t mean you ; but if you mean wrong, Ido mean you. I am myself for restoring the Union in good faith, according to the Constitution, and as our fathers made it. I was for that in 1860. I entered the political field in 1855, because I believed that the contesc then begun would result in a dissolution of the Union, and I wanted to give my feeble efforts to prevent it, if possible. I fought all the time in a minority party, until se cession was accomplished. Then when my State took her position on that ques tion, I went with her. There was no service which I could render, which was not at her command ; and, as I professed to be a Confederate, I stood by my State until she laid down her arms. I would have scorned myself if I had not thus been true to her. I saw and believed that secession was unwise and inexpedient on our own account, but when the State effected it, I went with her. Every true Northern man endorses this position. Let a man always be what he professes to be, and he will be respected. The great trouble with the Confederate States was that too many who inaugurated the secession movement became faithless to the cause. Well, we laid down our arms at Ap pomattox C. 11., and took the oath, as I have said, to support the Constitution and agreed that the colored people should be free. When I say I have kept that oath, and mean to keep it, every man of you will agree with me. The charge, then, that we are disunionists and faithless to our oaths, is false —gotten up by men them selves false, themselves traitors to the Constitution, to the Union, to every race, every law, every interest of this country. The flag of the Union is our flag. If it be emblematical of the Constitution, it will be gladly our banner ; ind North and bouth, to day, it floats from every village and hamlet of the country. Flag of our coun. try! wave! wave on, wave ever—but wave over freemen, not slaves ; over States, not provinces ; over States of equals, not lords and vassals ; over a land of liberty and right, not a land of despotism and strife ! (Here there was immense, loud, and prolonged cheering.) And, my countrymen, when we hear such sentiments as these received with such rapturous applause, when we know that they are the sentiments of every Democrat in the Southern States, how hu miliating, how mortifying it is to find even men born among us, too, telling the North ern people that wo intend another rebel lion ! But the North is waking up to this falsehood. It has, no doubt, had a terri ble effect; and is now to be renewed with desperate energy. Another branch of this scheme of deception is to cultivate strife between the white and colored races, by v telling the Northern people that we are oppressing the colored and loyal Union people. I speak fearlessly, my friends, be cause I know it is my duty to do so. I want you to see and to hear that the Radicals are making desperate efforts to keep the colored people separated from and embit tered against the white race. And why? Because they know that they cannot con trol the Northern people unless they create a false impression upon their minds. They w f ant to see repeated the New Orleans and Memphis riots, so as to create the impres sion that the respectable white people of the South, all of whom are Democrats, are endeavoring to get up strife between them selves and the colored people. These miserable creatures say, too, that another object of the Democratic party is to carry you back into slavery. They are vile liars! They know that it is false. We gave you your freedom incur Conven tion in 1865. And the Radicals arc the very ones who have declared that Consti tution illegal and set it aside! They say that we want a war of races. Now, let me ask you who owns all the property in this country? Don’t you know that the white people own 99-100ths of it in Augusta and other places in Georgia? Don’t you know it’s the Democrats who own it? Well, if war comes who will be the losers? Wouldn’t it be the Democrats? Why, we’ve tried war, we’ve lost by war, and we don’t want to lose any more by war. War is a thing which causes losses. Atlanta was burned by war ; money is required to carry on war; and all that we have got now is the little that was left us from the last war. Yet these miserable Loyal Leaguers want to make you believe that we want to get up another war. No, I’ll tell you what it is. These vile miscreants that they are, want to get up another war. These miserable creatures waDt a war—a war against men who are 3’our true friends. They are bankrupt in character as they are in purse—and that is very broken — and, therefore, a war would be the very thing for them. They could go bac»i to their old occupation of stealing spoons! It is true we haven't got a great many left, but they might get the balance. These vagabonds, also, at the commencement of the war had nothing, but wound up at its close with fortunes which they had stolen. These men may make something by stir ring up another war, and hence they want it. I ask every colored man if the Democrats own the property ,of this country, aint they the last mer. to try another war ? We don’t want you to be deceived; we don’t want you to be betray ed ; we dou’t want you to be misled by these miserable carpet-bag scoundrels. They are also teaching you to hate us. Will it do you any good? Suppose you keep up your Loyal Leagues ; suppose you keep on hating the white people; sup pose you get up a war, what will become of these miserable carpet-baggers ? They will run worse than a scared ra’oit from a hunter’s gun. My colored friends, I warn you here, to-night, and in doing so I am discharging my duty to. you—for I confess that I am talking principally to you —there is no use in talking to the white peo ple; they can see what the intentions of our enemies are; they have had more edu cation than you have, and the Radicals cannot get the honest masses of white people into these Loyal Leagues, to give carpet-baggers places of trust and prof it. But they deceive you and make you feel enmity against the white people. I appeal to you to come out of such dark holes, and stand by the people whom you were raised with. Don’t you see that it is to the interest of the white people to take care ot the coun try and to preserve peace ? How can you promote peace by believing the white peo ple your enemies ? It is strange that every colored man does not see the way which these carpet-baggers are leading them. Come boldly, then, into the Democratic Clubs. The white people will protect you. They are your friends. I exhort you to cultivate kindly feelings toward them; and I exhort them to cultivate kindly feelings toward you. Organize your clubs. We will protect you. Yes, let us all go for the Democracy, white aud colored, and then there will be no war—then there can be no war. But I warn you now, against the schemes of these miserable Radicals. It is your duty to be on your guard, white and black—to bear and forbear ; to reason and to remonstrate together.; to defeat the carpet-baggers, and to unite in elect ing Seymour and Blair. If you do this, colored people, I will guarantee to you that your wages will be increased fifty per cent, by Christmas. I am a farmer, and I am willing to enter into a bargain with you if, whether with or without your help, the Democratic candidates are elected, to give you next year fifty per cent. more than I am giving in 1868. Why can I guarantee this? Because if the Democrats are triumphant, confidence Mini®! fii i©im will be restored, we will be placed where we were before, capitalists will come here, lands will rise in value, everything will in crease in value; and as property and products increase in value, labor will also increase in value. We will be better able to pay fifty per cent, more than we are now, than to pay what we now do. Don’t you un derstand that ? You are destroying your own interests, the peace and quiet of the country, rushing your families, your wives and children, into war and destruction, when you go with these Radical carpet baggers. Then, let us all unite against them. We feel under obligations to you for your kindness to our people during the war, and lor your conduct after emancipa tion. We were all industrious then, all doing well, until these miserable Radicals came in and commenced destroying your substance. You can see what we are coming to. I hope that you will look at the subject carefully and honestly. I feel anxious about it. It is an important one; and it is strange that you do not consider it as you ought to do. I speak kindly to you all the time, I feel kindly toward you, and I want to see 3’ou do right; but wherever Igo the ob ject of the Radical party is to keep you from hearing me. They represent me as your enemy. They tell you falsehoods, and send drummers all over the couutry to prevent you from hearing me. But I want you to hear the warning that I have given you, and the appeal that I have made to you, ard the few of you whom I have seen, and who have heard me, tell what I have said to your friends and neighbors. I wanfothem all to know it; to know that they have been deceived; to know who are their friends. Then I will give you an additional piece of advice. Come and occupy the position God has given you. What lie has done is right, just, and good, Let us come together ; live together in peace and good will, aud plenty shall come to us again for ourselves and our posterity. It is my duty to warn you to-night, that if you turn a deaf ear to what I have spoken to you ; if you will be deceived ; if you will .hate the white people ; if you, yourselves, will provoke a war of races—l warn you that destruction is in store for you. When such a war comes, if unhap pily it should, the whites, North and South, will unite against you. I see let ters from the North, almost every day* saying let the contest come; we will fight it out. Oh, my colored friends, that a voice from Heaven could tell you, that the best friends you have on earth are these Southern people—these people who have been raised with you. It is strange to me that you can be made to believe any thing else. The Radicals have tried the white people and failed with them ; and now they are failing with the colored people. I have studied the history of your race for four thousand years. — During your slavery you enjoyed more advantages and happiness than any of your race elsewhere. If you want to preserve your advantages and happi ness in freedom you must preserve your kindly and natural relations with the white people. You are now as free as I am; but do not let the future historian say that as soon as you got your freedom you be gan to deteriorate. Preserve your charac ters, improve your race, be honest and just, and freedom will prove a blessing to you. If you turn your back on .your friends, on men who made this country, what will become of you? We want peace —we iutend to have peace —it is to our interest to have peace ; but if you will wage war, if you will follow strangers, if you will hate our people at the instiga tion of carpet-baggers, woe be unto you. These are words which should strike deep into your hearts, as I utter them—woe ! woe ! unto you will be the words from all parts of the world. These are not threats, my colored friends; they are words of counsel, and warning, and wisdom to you. I do not know what is to become of the country. There were never so many whites and blacks assembled together in one Government, as freemen, before. Whether it will stand or fall I do not know. Philosophers say that it cannot stand. I won’t dispute it with them. Well, what then ? Do you expect the white people to quit it? Do you expect them to follow the carpet-baggers in their disfran chisement of'intelligent people? That they won’t do. Never! Never! If you would prosper aud be happy, then, you must come to us; come together; it is your interest to come. We understand this question better than you and know our rights, and we know yours. I have made, my friends, a more earnest appeal to the colored people of Augusta than I have elsewhere, because they have been subjected to more deleterious influences than those of other places. I don’t know any place where there were more of these carpet baggers and more efforts made by them to deceive you —some of these, un happily, are “to the manor born.” They told me themselves that they wanted to deceive you, and now, seeing their failure, they are becoming desperate. Some of these men in Georgia have become so hardened, so desperate that they would be willing to see the country sacked, to see arson, theft, murder, and every crime in the catalogue enacted, it by it they could be left in power. In my opinion, in regard to our candi dates and the present canvass, much speaking is unnecessary. \\ by ? Be cause every white man understands the issue, unless he is a fit subject for a lu natic asylum ; and as for the colored men, if you want good advice, go to the men who have never deceived you—to those who were raised with you —to those who have always been your friends ; go to them privately, but not to office-seekers and office-holders ; go to citizens whose whole interests are in the property and prosperity of the country, ask them honest ly ; they will advise you right, and then follow their advice. Take their advice in stead of that of Loyal Leaguers, who have come down here to get office and to stir up strife between you and the white people, and you will uot regret it. My countrymen, I have detained you longer than I intended. I have indulged in a vein of earnestness unusual with me ; but I feel the weighs of the words that I have been speaking and the importance of the subject I have presented to you. I have indulged in no rhetorical flourishes. What we want is plain words, and plainly spoken. I can tell you, my countrymen, we are standing beside a vortex, an im mense abyss ; and when we are asleep we know not what schemes the miserable ad venturers are plotting against us—against white and black. We cannot tell. We only know that the elements of disoord are at work ; we know that some men will sacrifice honor, hope, country, everything for office ; we know that if we do not see evil we cannot avert it —and, .seeing it, if we do not avert it, we are false to our selves and to our children. Therefore I say what I do, so earnestly and so strongly to you. And now we of fer forgiveness to all who are willing to do right. There has been a time for errors, for dissensions, for mistakes. That time has passed. Let us forgive and forget and let us take all in who are willing to aid us in the great work before us. Let us teach the colored man his duty; be kind and forbearing to the colored man, forgiving to the penitent, and to all who are willing to save the country. But when I have said that, my powers of forgiveness are exhaust ed. The man who votes for the vassal age of the Southern white people to the Northern white people, forgets himself and hi3 country—its present, its past, and its future. The man who votes the Radi cal ticket should be forever contemned by white and black. But even to these wicked miscreants use no violence; hurt not a hair of their heads, but drive them from your society, forsake them in their business, and brand them like Cain, to be fugitives and vagabonds upon the face of the earth. You may say this is proscription. Are they not proscribing you ? Let them know it before hand what your feelings are and what your conduct will be towards them, and they will abandon their wild and wicked projects. 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