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J. VV. BURKE & CO. Min JiiutiiiAL & mmm J. W. BURKE & CO., Proprietors. OFFICE—No. SO SECOND ST., MAOON, OA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. daily one Month «1 oo •to three Months 250 ilo six Mouths 5 (Mi do one Year ....™V...".V...."t0 00 Georgia Jocbsal A Messenger Is published every Wednesday. Three dollsrs per annum. S. HOSE, the former proprietor and editor, re- j mains connected with the several departments of 1 be Journal and Messenger. 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. auglO-ct 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 isian Novelties, and unequalled In choice variety 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. V A* we purcbwae JorV r-lcmnvi Yu New- Toft IT Ml '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 ONE PRICE SYSTEM, 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. aug2o-tsept7. SIMMONS’ liver regulator, ri-IHE COMPONENT PARTS OF WHICH ARE J purely vegetable, and as a medical ageut its healthful effects have made It a general favorite. The effect of the medicine cu the Stomach, Liver and Kidneys is prompt and effectual. The pa tient soon feels as il tie had taken anew lease ol life, and is overjoyed to liudthe depressed leeling dissipated, the costive habit corrected, and new streams of health coursing through hts frame. For Deranged Liver, Dyspepsia, Diarrhea, Plies, Ac SIMMONS’ REGULATOR certainly has no 1 superior, It acts like a chatm, without debi,.- I tating the system, and without any ot the evil I effects of mercury. „„ TI T ANARUS„ ~ I Made ouly by J. H. ZEILIN A CO. Sold by all Druggists. Price Si. READ THIS SPECIM EN OF A HUNDRED CERTIFICATES: i I have been afflicted with Liver Disease, Bil | ious Cholic and Dyspepsia and have been so much relieved by Simmons’ Liver Regulator that I cannot refrain from letting you know of the value of your excellent remedy. I believe it will I effectually cure me. I consider it a great blessing ! to be able to obtain such a medicine. 1 Truly yours, C. MASTERSOX, J Firm Grier A Masterson, Macon, Ga. aug2B-ct