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GREAT SPEECH OP
HON. ROBERT TOOMBS,
AT CEDAR TOWN, POLK COUNTY,
AiorsT 27-rii, 18t<8.
Ladies and Gentlemen: —l have come
with pleasure at your Lidding to takecoun
sei with yon on this occasion, concerning
the public safety and the preservation of
public liberty. In discharging my hum
ble part on this interesting occasion, I
would imitate ihe great Athenian orator,
who never addres.-ed an assembly of his
countrymen without iirst calling upon the
gods of his country, and imploring of them
that lie might utter no word which might
bring .reproach upon the cause of truth or
detriment to that of his country. I feel,
to-day, prouder of the people of my na
tive .State than T have done at any other
period of my life. I have seen them uu
der all the vicissitudes ordinarily incident
to men and nations, from the brightest
prospects down to the lowest depths of
misfortune and misery; hut to-day they
exhibit a moral grandeur for which I bow
with humble thankfulness to the Great
Dispenser of human affairs, who inspired
them with a fortitude and heroism equal to
the perils which surround them. You have
felt all the woes, all the bitterness which
triumphant wrong could inliiet upon you.
The goverument of your choice has been
overthrown, thousands of your fathers,
husbauds, brothers and sons have perished
in its defense, your land has been ravaged,
your property destroyed, your wives and
daughters insulted, you have been stripped
of the commonest rights of freemen, sub- !
jected for years to an insoieut and brutal
military despotism, which haserowued its
own infamy and tilled the measureof your
wrongs by an attempt, hitherto unknown
iu the annals of national crime, to make
your slaves your masters. Yet I find,
amid all these crushing calami ties, through
out all of our borders, the fixed purpose, j
the unconquerable will, never tosurrender ;
the inalienable rights of men, and old '
men, middle-aged men, young men, lovely j
matrons and blushing maids, everywhere '
gathering together to cheer, to animate, to
bless those who still plead for right and
justice, and still worship ut the altar of
truth. [Great cheering.] Who can wit
ness these scenes and doubt the power, the
immortality, the divinity of truth ? Who
doubt but
That freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Tho’ battled oft is ever won ?
J come to-day to urge you to gird on
your armour, to do your duty in this great
conflict, not with the sword ; I would
that the sword might be sheathed forever,
and that liberty might never need so dan
gerous an aijy and defender. I prefer
peace, I want peace. I want rest. .Near
ly sixty Winters have shecf their snows ,
upon my Bead ; nearly thiity of these
years have been spent in the public ser
vice, battling agaiuts these same enemies
of the rights of the people of the States
and of tlie principles of the Constitution
of 1787. I can, therefore, honestly say
with Gen. Grant, “Let us have peace.”
Alas! he but “holds the word of promise
to the ear and breaks it to the hope.”
Peace is not the child either of wrong or
oppression, or of despotism. These are
the works of the wicked and holy writ
teaches us that they shall have no peace.
This pearl of great price to nations and to
men can only be found in the principles
of justice. All the good men of this
country seek it, ardently desire it. The
two great political parties offer it to them.
Let us go aud search for it—search for it
in the conduct, the acts, the declared prin
ciples, and iu the characters of the can
didates of these organizations which di
vide the people of the Uuited (States.
'Those who call themselves the Union Re-
party met at Chicago during iast
ftfay and placed Gen. and Mr. Col
fax before the country as tfleir candidates
andtheexpopentsoftheirprinciples. Gen.
Grant has obtained a wide-spread reputa
tion as a soldier, none whatever as a states
man. His administration of the Congres
sional despotism established from the
Potomac to the Rio Grande, was weak and
wicked to the last decree. He openly
avowed and acted upon the principle of
carrying out the secret wishes of his par
ty in Congress, even against their plainly
declared purposes in the acts of recon
struction, while acknowledging that these
acts left the people of the States subject
to be reconstructed, free to accept or reject
the proposed measure. Under nis instruc
tions, bis satraps proscribed newspapers,
dismissed civil officers, arrested citizens
for exercising this express privilege as
“impediments” to reconstruction, thereby
making the exercise of legal right, con
ceded by himself, a crime punishable at
the pleasure of Iris military commission.
He accepted the confidential position of
Secretary of War from the Preside it, had
liis veracity directly impeached by five of
his colleagues aud attempted to support
his veracity by pleading his own treache
ry. His letter accept! t)g the Chicago
iiomiu&ti” l ! closes tor the present, at least
ljis political history He declares liis ad
herence to this extraordinary manifesto,
until lie or the public change ttteir opiu
jons. He does not even affect the slight
est sense of obligation to the Constitution;
the will of the people is his professed |
polar star, wbieh ny his owu interprets-;
tion meaus the will of the revolutionary
faction which seek to use his military re-1
nutation to perpetuate their own power j
aud subvert the Constitution. Uet us try |
him and Ids colleague by the standard j
which they have chosen aud accepted. ;
This Chicago platform is a model of auda- ■
city, of falsehood and of a shameless con
tempt for popular inieljgenoe. Kven the
few sound generalities and historical
truths which it contains, were inserted
with a fraudulent intent, aud appropna-|
ted to the wicked purpose of coveriug up ;
the plunder of the people aud concealing ,
the fatal wounds inflicted on the Cos nit 1-
tution It denounces “all form of repu
diation as a national crime,” simply to put
countless millions in the pockets of
“money changers," to which they are not
lawfully aud rightfully entitled. It an- ,
nounces equal taxation as a sound and
pure principle, and relieves fifteen hun
dred millions of the property of these j
Jame “money changera’l of all taxes
whatever. It demands the “strictest ecoa-;
ooiy in the administration of the gov- j
ernment,” whilst its framers have expend
ed nearly five hundred millions per an
num, since the close qf the war, without
lessening the public debt to the amount of
a single postage stamp, and with the af
frouterv which would do honor to the he
roes of Newgate denounces the corruptions
which have been “so shamefully nursed
and fosterer! by Andrew Johnson,” whom
they have stripped of all power, aadqhere
fore of ail responsibility for the adminis-
tration of publiojiffairs. It declares sym
pathy “with all oppressed people strug
gling for liberty,” except the victims of
the perfidious tyranny of its owu archi
tects. It invites immigration aud pledges
protection to emigrants against all kings,
potentates, or powers, except their worst
enemies, the Radical party, which de
mands of all emigrants, the unconditional
support of despotism on this side of the
Atlantic, as the price of protecting them
from it on the other. It offers amnesty,
and pardon, and peace, “admission into
the communion of loyal people” to all
who will join in tbe conspiracy against
the Constitution, aud none others. It
lauds tbe principles of the Declaration of
Independence, which its advocates for
seven years, botli in peace and war, have
been struggling to overthrow. It votes
“special honor (not gold) to brave soldiers
aud seamen,” pays for their blood in de
preciated government paper, with which
the lame and the halt, the widow and the
orphan may buy gold, to be paid iu taxes
to be voted specialty to bond-holders. The
true soldier always honors a “foeman wor
thy of ids steel;” those Confederate sol-
1 diers who did their own duty in the late
war, would not willingly see one pledge
of tlie United States to her own soldiers
violated, one right withheld, nor would
they pluck one laurel from the brow of a
single soldier, w hether native or foreign,
who fought them m the late war; be
sides other and nobler reasons, whatever
glory they may have deserved will not be
lessened by encomiums upon their adver
saries. Finally, this platform congratu
lates “the country upon the assured suc
cess of the reconstruction policy of Con
gress as evinced by the adoption of a ma
jority of the .States lately in rebellion, of
Constitutions securing equal civil and po
litical rights to allpledges the Radical
party to maintain equal suffrage in ail
these “late rebel States,” but expressly
declaring that “the question of suffrage
in all ihe loyal States properly belongs to
these States.” “This policy of reconstruc
tion,” thus endorsed by Chicago Con
vention, makes up a clear and final issue
between military despotism and Consti
tutional Government. It leaves no place
for compromises, neither party can give
quarter. “Vat victis” must be inscribed
upou Hie hauliers of the contesting hosts.
It was meet and proper that the enuncia
tion of the success of this policy should be
clothed in langage of open, shameless
falsehood. It is not true that a majority
of the states lately in rebellion, or any one
of them, have adopted Constitutions se
curing equal civil or poliilcal rights to all,
or any other Constitutions whatever.
There was not a single act from the be
ginning to the consummation of these atro
cities which had the voluntary assent of
the people of either of these States. The
whole scheme, in all of its parts, and by
all of its machinery, was concocted and
adopted with the sole view of defeating
the popular will.
You know, fellow-citizens, that there
was not a native white man in the State
who gave public utterance toa single word
of approval of auv of its provisions. One
of its prominent features, the 14th Consti
tutional Amendment, had been nearly
unanimously rejected by the Legislature
of Georgia. Even those who advocated
its adoption relied upon the iufamyof the
Radical party rather than upon the mer
its of the scheme to accomplish that end.
Ex-Gov. Brown, its leading supporter,
commended it to your acceptance solely
upon this ground, ft was the custom of
ancient heathens to worship reptiles, croc
odiles and demons, to whom they would
sacrifice even wives and children to pro
pitiate their wrath, and to arrest their fe
rocity. It was upon this principle that
you were urged to lay your honor, and j
your lUMiiboo.J Ht ll»w IMrt yrmT tTtUTII.CV.
too were told by this emissary of these
usurpers that if you did not accept these
terms your lands would be contiseated,
your wives and your children would be
come houseless and homeless wanderers
and outcasts, and that these Radical mo li
sters infuriated by yourstubborn devotion
to liberty, would invent new instruments
of torture, and new and still more diaboli
cal punishments to conquer your tirmuess.
T hese appeals to your fears were scorn
fully rejected, the temper and the tempta
tion were trampled under your feet. Other
meaus were resorted to in order to manu
facture an apparent assent of the people.
Twenty thousand of you, all of you who
had even held tbe office of Justice of the
Peace, were already disfranchised by Ibis
“policy.” The ignorant blacks were en
franchised, were fed, drenched, debauched
by Government officials with public pap,
and then educated into the belief that a
Radical vote meant “forty acres of land
and a mule,” and lest even some of these
ignorant people might detect these frauds,
under the pretext of protecting them
against violence, they marched them to
> tbe polls with fixed bayonets, to gjve tfiejr
t free consent to the policy of reconstruc
tion ! Yet even this was not enough. A
plan of legislative spoliation, called relief,
was incorporated in the so-called Consti
tution which offered to the unfortunate a
free discharge from all of their debts, and
thus increased to some extent the number
of the votes for reconstruction.
The military satraps, Pope and Meade,
aided by their Chief, have faithfully la
bored to compass this iniquity. They
compelled every civil officer in the Htate
to remain silent, support “ the policy,” or
quit liisofflce; they oompelletl all newspa
pers to advocate it on pain of being de
prived of all legal advertisements iu the
State; they openly encouraged negroes,
criminals and adventurers iu insulting
aud robbing the honest people of the com
monwealth, in order to make the existing
state of tilings unendurable; and when all
this failed to accomplish their nefarious
purposes, Pope, in organizing the Conven
tion, and Meade, in organizing the Legis
lative and Executive departments of the
so-oalled Government of Georgia, shame
fully aided and abetted the fraudulent reg
istrars throughout the State, and thereby
put upon you a defeated Convention, a de
feated Governor, aud a fraudulent majori
ty in the Legislature. All these facts are
well known to the thousands of men and
women who are before me this day. Yet
this Chicago Convention has the audacity
to say that the State of Georgia has doue
this wicked thing. We already had a gov
ernment when these intruders were put
upon us. The people had assembled in
convention at the call of the President,
aud with the free and open acquiescence
of Congress, they had made a Constitution
| in conformity with the requirements of
| the Federal Government, it had been ac-
quiesced in by the people, they asked for
no change, they wanted none—no human
being seemed to desire any ohauge except
the Radical party. But they found that
they had no friends in that government,
and hence they determined to make a gov
ernment of their owu, and call it ours.
Now, we simply ask them to acknowledge
their owu bantling and not put its pater
nity upon us. But this Convention, with
intrepid audacity, uttered another stu
pendous falsehood, of which the very Con
stitutions of five of the States, which they
dragged into the Union, aud their own
Constitutional amendment, couviot them.
It affirms that these Constitutions “se
cured equal civil aud political rights to
all.” Shame, where is thy blush ? In
many of these States thousands of white
men are disfranchised; iu all of them
thousands are prohibited from holding
office, either by the State Constitutions,
or by the Fourteenth Amendment, or by
both.
The adoption of this amendment is of
itself a tjiuqning proof of the revolutiona
ry purposes of the Radicals. The recon
struction acts require that none of the
States to which they are made applicable,
MACON. GA., TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1868.
sliould be admitted into the Union until
they had severally adopted this amend
ment. The Constitution says that no
amendment shall be made to itself with
out tlie assentof three-fourths of the Htates;
none but States can vote upon the subject;
yet the Radicals have declared that their
military provisional Governments shall
vote to alter the Constitution before they
shall be admitted into the Union. This
pretended amendment is itself drawn with
ttie inteut to destroy the equality of the
States, while seeming to apply the same
rule to all. The States which did not
hold slaves before tlie war, had but few
negroes among them ; most of them but
enough to elect a single Representative to
tlie Legislature, none of them enough to
gain mi additional member iu Congress;
while in some of the Houtliern States the
negroes were the most numerous, and in
all of them formed a substantial part of
the population. While under this amend
ment ttie exclusion of the negioes from
the right of suffrage would not cost New
England a single vote in Congress, or a
single electoral vote, it would deprive
Georgia of one-half of her members and
electors, and tlie late slave-holding Htates
of more than thirty members of Congress.
This vile and dastardly fraud is well
worthy of the w hole statesmanship of their
party._ Yet, even on these terms; terms
prescribed by tlie Constitution, these usur
pers now declare that they will maintain
negro suffrage. These covenant-breakers
not only disregard their compacts with
others, but refuse to abide by them when
made wholly by themselves. This amounts
to tlie declared purpose to administer tlie
same Constitution, the same fundamental
law, differently in different parts of the
United Htates. Aud this simply meaus
that the Radicals do not intend to regard
the Constitution at all whenever tlie late
rebel States are concerned, though they
may be in the Union. I am not in tlie
least surprised at their purpose, hut I am
surprised at its avowal. Insensibility to
shame Is the last stage of public as well as
private profligacy; this point the Radicals
have reached. Such are the candidates
the principles and the practices of the Rad
ical party; such their claims upon your
confidence aud support.
They subvert all the ancient landmarks
of liberty; they ignore tlie corner stone of
all republican institutions—that ail just
powers of government must be “derived
’rom tlie consent of the governed.” The
present pretended government of this
State was erected purely by despotic pow
er; it is the offspring of military despot
ism ; brute force was ils architect and is its
sole cement. This policy is as wicked as
it is foolish ; it can never obtain the affec
tions of a single freeman. This is not the I
road to the human heart. The great Ruler
of the universe, in whom we all live, and
move, and have our being, iu dealing with ‘
hisown creatures, tlie wayward aud sinful
‘children of men, condescends to win them
back to the paths of virtue in the language
of affectionate entreaty; “My son, give
me thy heart,” is His iuvitatiou to His
peace. Force has robbed you of your birth
right; it hits filled your courts of justice
witli its venal, corrupt and ignoraut in
struments; it lias filled your executive
legislative departments witli ignorant,
brutal paupers and criminals, white and
black, who feel no part of the burdens they j
impose on you, reckless of the public wel
fare, inteut only on public plunder. These
are the legitimate fruits of tlie success of
the Congressional policy of reconstruction
in Georgia. Let us turn from this loath- j
some catalogue of crime to a far more pleas
ant prospect.
At .New York, oh the Ith of July laat. .
there assemble*! the rep rose *i tuti ve« oLthe
Democracy of tin- f nitvri states, including ,
in il» ..njuuiiullion *>-- • *»|U USI-UtS-iV *S* off
thousands of patriots who had not hither
to co-operated with them in political ac
tion. At the same time and place there j
assembled another convention, of soldiers
and sailors who served in the late war, in
the army and navy of the United Htates. :
These patriots also put forth a declara
tion of principles—a declaration which
awakeued a thrill of joyinevery freeman’s •
bosom, from the lakes to the gulf—from
ocean to ocean. It reaffirms all those j
great principles aud safeguards of per
sonal liberty, for which our British an>
oestors struggled, fought and bled, from
Runny in ede to the revolution of 1088, and
which were brought over to the new world I
by our fathers and planted in the Consti
tution of the Uuited States; Magna Charts,
trial by jury, independent judiciary, the
subordination of the military to the civil
authority, the freedom, of speed) and of
the press, freedom from arbitrary searches,
seizures and arrests. It puts the seal of
condemnation upon the principles ami
policy of the Radicals, and declares “the
reconstruction acts of Congress, so-called,
as usurpations, unconstitutional, revoiu
tionary and void.”
These great principles having been
unanimously adopted theCouveution with
the same unanimity nominated Seymour
and Blair as candidates for the Presidency
ami Vice Presidency, whose eminent
ability, integrity and fidelity to those prin
ciples furnish ample security that they
will be honestly carried out when the peo
ple of the Uuited States have ratified
these nominations by their election. Geor
gians I commend these men and their
principles to the acceptance of each aud
all of you. It may be the last peaceful
struggl3»which you may ever have an op
portunity to make in behalf of public lib
erty The Radical party falsely charges
you ami me With hostile designs against
the peace of the country; the charge is
made against us but to conceal their own
revolutionary designs. Who is eager for
thecoufiiet? .Not you whose fortunes are
desperate? Not yours, but theirs. Con
necticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn-
sylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland,
Kentucky, California and Oregon, have
already declared against them, everywhere
the “Thanes are flying” from their stand
ard. The determined attitude of the peo
ple of the North in these elections and
many others drove them from their favor
ite policy of negro suffrage in the North,
and compelled them to fall back, for the
present at least, from their raid on the tax
payers whom they sought to plunder for
the bondholders; and their sole remain
ing political capital i3 sectional hate and
negro supremacy. At the North their only
remaining war cry is, “wake up! the
rebels be upon ye.” “Hear the slogan of
Hampton and Forrest and Cobb and
Toombs,” at the South. In the South it
is, “help, help us, Cuffee, or we sink !”
Under the fear of the unarmed, impover
ished, depopulated South, with the same
“brave colored troops who fought so nobly
in the war,” armed aud equipped and
keeping “watch aud ward” over her loy
alty, the Radicals of the North are organ
ising “Grand Armies of the Republic,”
arming hundreds of thousands of loyal
militia “from snowy white to sooty.” All
over the South their notes of preparations,
their calls to arms are heard, aud every
nerve is strained to produce a collision
between the blacks and whites in order to
create a necessity or pretence for Graut’s
peacemaker—martial law. But a few days
ago, a mass meeting, said to number sev
eral hundred blacks and a score or two of
their keepers, met at Atlanta. Ex-Gov
ernor Brown, Bullock’s Chief Justice, was
their chief spokesman. H e Btill believes
in the omnipotent power of fear audava
rice over the heart3 and conduct of all
white men. He openly declares that
blood aud arson, at least, shall inaugurate
the triumph of the Democratic parly and
its principles. He advises his party to go
to the polls armed. I suppose to overawe
and intimidate, and possibly to supply
with bullets any deficiency iu ballots. He
tells them that four millions of people
never gave up the ballot (whenever exer-
cised, rightfully or wrongfully
acquired) wkh'pft: blood. Tiim false aud
revolutionary utterance was for no other
purpose than tijj> pfodtiee a War of races.
He knows it was false; for he is not Igno
rant of history! certainly not ignorant of
Radical rule over his own country since
the overthrow the Confederate govern
ment.
He knows ti e history of Radical gov
erument in Flo Ida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Lou liana, and the oilier (late)
“ rebel Htates.” He knows it was revolu
tionary, for the aid Constitution left the
whole question es suffrage to bo regulated
by tlie Htates, arid the Fourteenth Amend
ineut does ex piinsiy affirm t lie same right.
Therefore, it w*s a deliberate effort to ex
cite the negroeito resist by force the ex
ercise by aocietjof a plain constitutional
(lower. In theiaine address he declared
to tlie blacks limt the houses, villages,
towns and *f this Htate were their
securities againdt the exercise of this right
ful (xiwer. You chafed the spirit of
this valiant leader,and under threats of
confiscation of youri tends and few remain
ing moveables, ar and j' unnumbered woes to
be in Acted by these tearful monsters,” he
demanded your consent to submit your
fundamental UwJW’J* mongrel convention
of ignorant aud rihrioua Airmans and wan*
(leringcrMi lgais. reffriecl, andforced
General Grant to iiold Aiue without your
consent. under the fame terrible
penalties. your consent to
the adoption of tbs thing called a Consti
tution, which stripped the Intelligence
the virtue, the patnytism, and the proper
ty of the country ifutd jjiißiiiarticipatitMi
in the proposed gofiermn«nt, andeeught
to bind tiiem by rMjbs never to change its
most infa|*»us prrfljbion*. This you re
fused, atiuthereßflrbreed the registrars
aud military cotuoHndera to commit great
“ irregularities ” with the lists
of voters and the ballot box iu securing a
majority for the CVu» itution, for JBullock,
and a “working majority” in both
branches of the Legislature. Indignant
at your refusal to Be sufficiently alarmed
to surrender your InMioraud your country,
with your enemy greatly aggravated by
your refusal to regard his treachery to
you, and apostacyjto his principles, by
giving him a &at in the .Senate of the.
United .States, hecbaies again, hut not iu
peace
“ He comes with hauler, brand undjtow.
As leader, meet* In# tfcsdly foe.”
He comes with niii-fy thousand dusky in
cendiaries armed With the torch to punish
aud put down this rtbelliou against the
Radicals. He conies to conquer a peace.
Tbe propagandists adopt the policy pro
claimed by the French revolutionists in
j the reign of terror, m racily described by
a French poet. I will give you a free
; translation of on*couplet:
“O, lovely age, wiigu loting senators vote.
Let u» be brethren, or »t will cut your throat.”
If you will only join the robber clan,
they will tie content, they will accept no
securities from ym for their own safety
except your pamcipaiion in their crimes.
Will you accept the terms? [Loud and
universal cries of Never! never!] No, I
know you will not—litKlor forbids it, pa
triotism forbids it, liberty forbids it, your
past glory, your present sufferings, the fu
ture hopes of you aud your posterity, ali,
all forbid it—-God forbids it.
*• Belter be where the ensanguined Spartans still
arc Iree,
In their own proud clivrnel—Ttierißopyia*.”
Fellow-citizens of Georgia, this is not a
party contest. Hitherto iu all patty con
flicts we all agreed ttig luiiiiattiental
l>rilicitdjj of--tbe* <#--—**-u«v*Rt —-Ihe t'oa
th-swnt ry wa# >,aK. -‘Y s - “jfiion (n eith
er the Legislative, FTteeutive or Judicial
Departments was supported by none, was
sondemned and punished bv all. Each
party kuew and felt that tile defeated (tar
ty lost nothing but some favorite leader,
or some favorite policy, and [icrhaps only
for a time, by defeat. Tlie same measure
of protection, of justice, would be tin ted
out alike to all. We bore trio same bur
dens and received tbe same benefits from
the Government, Blit no matt before me
can look without fear and apprehension at
either the successor the defeat of tlie Kad
! ical faction. Their conduct has marked
I them as enemies to society. I feel tiiat
1 toleration of them is treason to mankind.
I want tile vote of every honest man in
Georgia to tie cast against tiiem, ami after
diligently searching witli perfect sincerity
into their platforms, and addresses and
speeches, and weighing their conduct in
j the even scales of justice, I have not found
; one reasott why an honest man among
jyou should now support them.
Mark my words, Issy, “should note sup- I
port them.” I know that honest and
good men have heretofore supported them, |
and 1 wish now to sfiow gll such good !
rpen that they should no longer do so.—
Old Union men, Union men before tlie !
war, were found arnoug their supporters, j
You were Union men because you were j
attached to the principles of tbe Constitu
tion. You opposed secession because you
thought your rights abd public liberty
would be safer under trie old Government
than under any that might come out of
the throes of revolution. Well, though I
differed with you, I can respect youropiu
ions sincerely entei tained; if you stood by
the old Constitution because you loved its
principles, you must oppose the Radicals
for overthrowing them. Your place is
with the Democratic party. There are to be
found men who, like you, opposed seces
sion and fought under tbe old flag aud the
old Constitution, who are to day embodied
to defend them at the pills ; who resist
the Radicals because they are trying to
overthrow them aud establish a Military
Despotism. Come aud stand with 4hem.
If you hate the secessionists, then lsate
them still; if you hate me for beginning
the struggle for liberty, do it still, if you
please. Make my name infamous forever
if you cau aud will it,but save yourself.save
liberty, save t.Ue save, ah,
save your country.
There is another and still larger class of
my countrymen vyho have cooperated
with the Radicals, in the late election, to
a partial extent, who were called Keoon
structionists. Among them were Union
men and secessionists, their present posi
tion having no relation to their antece
dents. Among them I recognize true,
brave and honest tnen, men who detest the
principles aud practice? of the Radical fac
tion as much as any of us, men who earn
estly and honestly seek relief from their
despotism—these men voted for a Consti
tution which they loathed, with men
whom they despised, because they said
and believed that they could better defeat
their nefarious schemes in the Union than
out of it. They were willing to accept
their policy as the best means of over
throwing their principles. With all such
I wholly differed, but I would grapple
them to my bosom with hooks of steel.
They were patriots earnestly laboring for
the common cause, but I oppose! them ; I
would ‘‘touch not, taste not, handle not
the unclean thing.” They did evil that
good might come, ia my judgment, hut I
know how weak, how fallible we all are.
Perhaps the result may prove their wis
dom and my folly, but whether good or
evil shall befall us I honor their motives
aud claim their brotherhood. To-day we
have arrived at a point where these diller
ences of the past are buried, to day we are
together, therefore let every honest recon
structionist give me “the right hand of
fellowship.” [Tremendous cheering and
wild enthusiasm in the audience.] Thank
you gentlemen, I have not mistaken you,
this is peace between us.
There was another and still more nu
merous class of our fellow-citizens who
were constrained against their free will to
lend a seeming support to these villains.
That was the debtor class. Thousands of
our best meu were pecuniarily ruined by
the result of the late war \ men of large
estates, whose chief wealth lay in their
slaves Many of them were not Involved
in debt at all inconvenient, taking their
estates into tlie account ; they held large
and valuable tracts of land, ami numer
ous slaves of great pecuniary value; their
debts were small as compared witli their
estates; they were surrounded with all
the comforts, the elegancies, tlie luxuries
of life The spoiler came ; lie robbed
them of their slaves, their stock, their
household comforts, the very ornaments
of their peraous, desolated their fields, and
left them with nothing but their lauds
and their debts. 111 their desolation the
tempter came, not in the shape of an eti
emy, but as an old and trusted Irieud, born
in Houth Carolina, in Calhouu’s district,
four times Governor of Georgia, and whis
pered in their ears, though we are demons
we wilt be your saviours, the negros have
no debts, no home, no principle, no states
manship, they care nothing for their •'ob
ligations of contracts,” nor for the Con
stitution which protects them, the North
ern adventurers who have poisoned them
never had credit enough anywhere to fear
a constable. We who have joined them
find im.(-ueci-s- will ooinpensate us for all
VV a offer you era , Ttfe im-,t
especially past debts* shall die with the
Confederacy. We are the brazen serpent;
look upou us and live! it was liuu* the
Umiptri caiue.
There were equities at the bottom, which
he neither saw nor regarded. He saw on
ly despair aud poverty,- he saw good and
brave meu who had stood by the right, by
calamities which they did all in their pow
er to avert, reduced to the last extremity •
of misery, dependent wives, children aud
frieuds around them ; the creditor at the
door threatening to turn them out of their
ancestral hails, houseleua and homeless,
with every sun setting upon a change, ami
every day dawuiug upou new miseries.—
In this condition Governor Brown prom
ised them relief. They felt that there was
equity in equalizing losses as far as possi
ble. They felt that those who from tlie
accidents of war and the nature of their
properly had escaped de-truction, should
share somettiiugoi the general ruin. They
drew from nature the lesson that, as socie
ty rightfully claimed of ail of its members
their lives and properties, R was bouud to
give protection They were helpless be
cause of the lost cause, and yielded as they
supposed, to the great law of self-preserva'-
tion. There was equity here, there was
justice here. I pity and respect the tempt
ed, but abhor aud curse the tempter.—
Gov. Brown knew mat his crude and frau
dulent scheme of relief was a cheat and a
swindle. He knew that the Constitution
of the United Htates stood like a lion in
the path of his project of delusion and fol
ly ; but he also kuew it might auswer for
one election, aud he resolved to betray
those whom be could not beuefit, and
joined in the shout of “ ’Rah for Bullock
and relief!”
The resuit Was that his friends iu Con
gress, not unexpectedly to him, struck out
relief, and left them Bullock and negro su
premacy. One would have supposed that
such a man would then have hid his head
iu shame ; not at all; he issues anew ad
dress aud promises his dupes that he will
concoct new schemes for their relief, and
put men on the Supreme Court beucb base
enough to support them. The Express
adventurer joined in tlie fraud aud put
him and one McCay to do the dirty work,
hoping that they might keep up the fraud ,
and deception unlit after me Kreaideiuiat
election- The utter treachery o* xsrawti
in Uim f* »-«*-«• *«
Ktraven ity a single statement. Heevery
w here eon tended that tbe reconstruction
acts were valid; that the Constitution had
no force in Georgia ; that under those acts
the military government was the sole and
lawful ruler of Georgia ; that a siugle gert
. ral order from Meade adopting the eou
-litutional provision of relief would have
extinguished every debt embraced in the
so-ca<led Constitution. If he had wanted j
the relief he pretended the remedy was iu
his hands, ttie order was not issued, and
the friends of relief were cheated.
Now, my relief frieuds, why should you
support the Radicals? Are you willing to
be cheated again ? Will you not rather
trust tlie wisdom, the justice and the good
faitliofyour fellow-citizeus“to ttie manner
born,” who are common sufferers with
you, who sympathize with you aud de
tuand a wise aud just system of relief,
which will protect poor and honest eredit-
I ors as well as poor and honest debtors ?
| You know that there are laitb classes, who
! have been made so by the fortunes of war.
: Come, joiu tlie party of honest and true
men, who wifi do all that can be done jor
| you aud themselves, and
I" lie these juggling knaves no more believed
Who falter in a double sense,
Who hold the word of promise to ear
And break it to the hope.”
I know you will come. I see your in
dignant bosoms heaving witli vengeauce
against those who have trafficked in your
misfortunes aud mocked your calamities.
Come, joiu those who have honest sympa
thy with your calamities and will make
honest efforts to relieve them. Brown
offers you but one shelter from the “ piti
less storm,” that is corrupt Judges. He
proposes to sell his conscience for votes ;
trust him not even iu his crimes; he has
betrayed his natural ami foster mother.
“ More, hitter far than a serpeut’s tooth, is
to have a thankless child.” He is false to
nature. He went to Chicago. What more
can I say to commend this wretch to your
detestations? He has fatigued public in
dignation, it is no longer equal to his
crimes. Ignoble villain, buoyant solely
from corruption, he only rises as he rots.
Fellow-citizens—l am wearied with this
loathsome record of Radical orimes. I
have pulled off a few strips from the bark
of this gigantic Upas tree. I leave a Her
culean task to ray distinguished friends l
wiio are to follow me, to probe it to the ;
heart and lay it bare to your detestation.
To whom else shall I address myself? j
Not to tire Democrats, for they do not even
need the word “onward.” Not to the
ladies, for they are already so far above the
men, that if I could lift them to a higher
circle in the regions of pat riotism, I should
show ourselves unworthyof them. I shall
do no such thing; we love them too well
even to send them to Paradise. Our old
ancestor Adam refused to stay in Paradise
without Eve. He was a real man, and no
sham. He accepted the curse of his Maker
rather than forfeit the smiles of Eve. This
was the first case of “all for love aud the
world well loA.” Right nobly has his
descendants in all ages vindicated the elec
tion of Adam.
borne men have acted well iu the drama
of life, many died for the truth, many have
laid dowu their lives without flinching,
on the gallows and the block, for liberty
aud law, and many more have fallen iu
the “imminent and deadly breach” for the
glory and safety of their “native heather,”
but it was a Carthaginian woman, more
heroic than Cato, the great enemy of her
country, who, after a three years’ siege,
after Carthage was reduced from three
hundred thousand to sixty thousand in
habitants, after the outer wall was batter
ed dowu, after the inner was ruined, after
the fires of the enemy were enveloping the
last refuge of the besieged, after the men
despaired aud raised the white flag, who
reproached her husband for his cowardice,
slew her owu children and leaped into
the flames of her burning city. Men, imi
tate her courage.
FOR RENT,
A COMFORTABLE tour-room Dwelling House,
on Oak Street, near tlie Southwestern Rail
road Depot.
For terms, apply to
sep2-tf W. <* E, P. TAYLOR,
TBAVELEirs GUIDE.
The following is a corrected schedule of
the various Railroads leading out of Ma
con :
rexTRAL RAILROAD—DAY TRAIN.
Leaves Macon 7 M.
Arrives at Havanuah ...s> de e.' m.’
Leaves Savannah ...« qja. m.'
Arrives at Macon 6 40'p. it.
NIOIIT TRAIN.
Leave* Macon « p.
Arrives ul Savannah r, 10 A . a
Leaves Savannah 7 au y, M .
Arrives at Macon ...U 65a. ' u'.
CtCNTBAL TO AUGUSTA—DAY IRAIN.
t-eaves Macon _.7 00 a. m. !
Arrives at Augusta ...Ti 88 p! m!
Leaves Augusta 8 46 A. M. I
Arrives at Macon 6 40 p. m.
CKNTKAL TO AUGUST A—-NIGHT TRAD*.
Leaves Macon 6 25 p m i
Arrives at Augusta. „ 3 13 A ’m’
Leaven Augusta 9 33 p M '
Arrives ul Macon e 55 A. m!
MACON and KATI,NTON —THROUGH TRAIN.
Leaves Macon 3 95 p M
Arrives at Milledgevilie 8 58 y, m~.
Arrives at Katonton n uy am!
Leaves Katonton Jj- Wit
Leaves MUledgeviile
Arrives at Macon .ll Druggistk. M.
south-westjckx ram.nos f fe. Jeorgia. T
I .eaves Mas—>u T V.
Leaves Columbus »
•Arrives at -T- « (Bp. » j
bwth-1* minus—no Albany and kupaci.a. i
f-eaves Macon.... S (JO a m 1
Arrives at Eulaula .....5 30 r. m.
Issaves En.au,a „„7 21 m
Arrives at Macon 4 ah e M
Connecting with Albany Trains at Smithvll>
and Fort Gaines Trains at Cutbbert.
MACON AND WEHTHKN RAILROAD.
i >ay Train leaves Macon 7 45 a. m
Day Train arrives at Macon 1 SI) y. p
Sight Train leaves Macon 8 40 p. m
N lght Train arrives at Macon ..2 10 a! m
Lay Train leaves Atlanta 7 53 a M
Bay Train arrives at Atlanta 2 00 p. m
> lgbt Train leaves Atla,- ta 6 30 p m
N lght Train arrives at Atlanta ....4 10 a’ h
No Day Train on Bunoay.
MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD.
Piissenger Train leaves Macon 8 00 p m
Passenger Train arrives at Maoon 10 30 A. m
GEORGIA RAILROAD—ATLANTA TO AUGUSTA.
bfiy P*.uteager Train.
Leave* Atlanta .5 00 A. M
Arrives at Augusta jj 45 r \ M ‘
Leaves Augusta 7 00 A M
Arrives at Atlanta "'"g 30 r. m!
Hight Ihutenger Train,
1/eave* Atlanta J 5 40 p K
Arrives at Angus La... M 00 A. m’.
Leaves Augusta 10 00 a. M
Arrives at Atlanta „.7 40 p. u'.
I>ay Trains only connect with Brancn Reads at
Union Point, Camak and Barnett.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Leaves MUledgeviile 530 a m
Arrive* at Augusta 3 45 P> M- ‘
Leaves Augusta..... 7 00 a'. m.
Arrives at MUledgeviile g 20 y\ h.
UNITED STATES HOTEL.
HACKEES', YORK dt JORDAN, Proprietors,
Within 100 yards of the General Pa ssenger Depot, J
corner Alabama ah<! Prior Streets, Atlanta, Ga. 1
E. H. PASSEES,
B. W. YORK,
R.T JOURDAN,
J, W. F. Bryson, K. T. Jourdan, Clerks,
lyiSMf
FERTILIZERS.
r \ M NOW PREPARED to fbrnish the Ammo- I
niated Haw Bone Huper Phosphate to parti .-s '
who are sowing Turnips, etc.
ASHER AYRES.
Macon, Ga., July SOtb, 1868. jy3o-lna
COWART HOUSE,.
Near the Passenger Sited, jf \
ATLANTA, QEOEofep.t
rAV jUfr
m ay7-t f pr^J^tor.
500 papers RUTA BACA,
500 papers FLAT DUTCH,
;300 papers REDTOP.
Norfolk, hanover. aiso,
WINTER CABBAGE SEEDS
Warranted fresh and genuine, by
J. H. ZEILIN & CO
NORTH CAROLINA COLLARD SEED.
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UOLUMBUS, OA., August 80, 1867.
We, the undersigned hereby certify that we
have used “ Denuisou’s Condition Powders, for-
Mnies tor uvmt years, and bellevi
them to be rar superior to anything of the kino
ever offered to the public for the purposes recom
ma! H. Hun, Ag’t So. Express Cos, Columbus, Ga.
A Gammki.i,, Liv. Stable Keeper, “ ‘
Howard a Disbrow, “
Thomas s. spear,
i). F. Ei,ms & Dr. W. C. I)bli,amy, ‘
H. B. Flajt, Fres’t So. Express Cos., Augusta, Ga.
Col. It. B. Bulloch, Sup’t “ “ “
Col. E. Hulukrt, “ “ Atlanta.
Cok. Jamk Khutku, “ “ Memphis.
A. K. Holt. Esq., Ag’t “ Nashville.
A. B. SMALL, Esq., Sup' “ NewOrleana.
Manufactured by
D. M. DENNISON,
Columbus, Ga.
Aud For Sale by
, J. I'. ZEILIN *6 CO.,
L. W.HUNT A IX).
Macon. Ga.
And at HAWKIKSVii.Ik, by
J. A. THOMPSON,
May 23—d&wly Druggist.
I '"jj|
rriHE UNDERSIGNED IS PREPARED TO FC R-
J. nluh the TRADE with this
CELEBRATED TIE!,
ALSO,
SWEE T J S
SELF-FASTENING BUCKLE,
In qnantien from one ton and upwards, at LOW
EHT MARKET PRICES.
JAMES A. HALL.
jyß-dawtf AgentMlddle and ». W. Ga*
VOL. LX., NO. 158.
Westward tlie Star of Emrire Tate its Way.
Secure a Home
IN
THE GOLDEN STATE.
THE
fiuittigraiit Homestead Association,
OF CALIFORNIA.
1 ncorforATED under the laws of the Rtute,
| November 30th, 1867» for the purpose of providing
Homes for its Members,
And promoting Immigration.
UPIT.4I. STOCK .... $ 1,00(1,000.
Divided into 20U,00b ahares, at $5 each, payable
la IT. 8, Currency.
Certificate* ot istoek homed to uiiecrila-n Ha•
; riittliM-ir cpnii receipt >*f tbe ru.juey.
No person allowed to hold more tfcau five
Share*.
I A circular, containing a fuTl description of tlie
property to be distributed among the spat a
holders will be seat to any addree* upon receipt
of stamps to cover return postage.
Information as to price of land in any portion
of the Mtate, or upon any other subject of line rest
to parties proposing to immigrate, will tie cheer
fully furnished upon receipt of stamps for
postage.
All letters should be addressed,
HkCy. Immigrant Homkstkad Assoc'n,
Post Office Box No. SO,
ang 25-2m] San Francisco, Cal.
FALL AND WINTER IMPORTATIONS.
18 0 8.
Millinery Goods!
' Ribbons, Trimming Ribbons, Velvet Gibbons,
Milks, Batins, Velvets, ,
Fancy Bonuet Materials, '
Bloods, Crapes, Netts,
French Flowers, Plumes and Ornaments.
Bounds, and Ladies Hats,
In Straw, Silk, Velvet and Felt.
We offer the largest and best assorted Stock in
the United Slates, comprising a2l the latest Pai
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and cheapness.
ARMSTRONG. CATOR A CO.,
237 and 239 Baltimore street,
aug2S-Ct] Baltimore, Md.
TO THE CITIZENS
- OF
- AND VICINITY.
THE SUBSCRIBERS will open a large and
complete
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Stock of
IDIR/Y- GOODS,
In Macon, at Price's old stand, 1 iki * t -^^rr
(White, Triangular Block, in H.
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'every day *n the vear, shall have neS* sWJbi-.:
' reeling by every steafier, bought very often at
i Aeavy discount on prevailing rates, and we can
i and will otter our customers great advantages.
j —xx»u> to adhere strictly to Ihe
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And to conduct our business in such a manner
that a child will obtain goods on the same terms
as the most experienced buyer.
Orders will receive especial attention.
Soliciting from purchasers an eariy call aud a
thorough examination, we are.
Very respectfully,
augl7-lm W. A. HOPSON <fc CO.
W. J. McELROY,
Manufacturer of Copper and *
Tin Ware.
ORDERS from Merchants for wholesale bills of
Tin Ware will meet with prompt attention.
1 Direct to W. J. McEi.ROY, Macon, <ia.,or leave
i with D. Good A Sou, 3d Street, where I have a lot
j ot Stills, Sloves, and Tin Ware tor saie, and am
i prepared to make any rized Stills to o"der.
i je2s-3m
BARBER SHOP
AND
BATHING ROOMS,
MICHAEL LOH,
UNDER POST-OFFICE, Lanier House build
ing, keeps a neat and tasty barber shop, tree
from any objectionable features, and at all times
orderly, and supplied with every convenience,
and skilful employees. His
BATHING DEPARTMENT
Is nloely arranged, and Baths of any kind are
furnished.
JWTeriug reasonable.
Jaulyt-tt
NOTICE—DIVIDEND No. 29.
Southwestern Railroad Company,)
Os Kick, Macon, Ga., Aug. 13, 1868. j
A Dividend o: four ($-1.00) dollars per share on
the Capital Stock of this Company, as held on the
31st ultimo, has this day been declared by the
Board of Directors, from the earnings of the
Itoad for the six months endingSlst ultimo, pay
able on and after 17th instant, in United States
currency.
The United States Revenue tax will be paid by
this Company.
Stockholders In Savannah will receive their
Dividends at the Central Railroad Bank
JNO. T. BOIFEUILLET.
auglt-lm Secretary nml Treasurer,
MATT. R. FREEMAN. R. O. HOLLISTER.
MATT. FREEMAN & CO.’S
CITY EXPRESS,
Livery and Sale Stable,
MACON, CA.
The above Stables are now open on
SECOND Street, below Mulberry,
Opposite Johnston & Co.’s Jewelry Store.
BOARDING, TRANSIENT and DROVERS’
STOCK, will receive every attention.
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