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nothing pUbUahort, «»4
th« former direction, they an hald ru*i><
5. 4ny penon who receltea a ’newj
mikes uMotlt, whether be hts ordhreft
U held in lew tobea snbieritoer.. t [
ATTTF.^. GtfcRGlA, DECEMBER 3, 1&78.
man over yet sacrificed his ambition
upqp the altar of principle ' without
coitiing from the .sacrifice a purer,
Now, whether the great mass of
Republican voters at the North can
be induced to follow these leaders in
such a policy of oppression it is im^
possible to say. I cannot4»a)jwe jfa 1 ’
these leaders will be Bustiwn&ii»y that
wing of the party, small but respect
able, which-supported the- -President
in the beginning of his administration,
and who sustained him in his patriotio
recognition of the fact that ,the waf
was ended, and in removing the
troops aud leaving to Louisiana-and
to South Carolina the rights of- s&tf-
government., [Ayp)auǤ.
you to know also* .my cmratrynipr,
that there are thousands anSWnndfads
those were the only rings' A Mbm
could denounce ? ^JJiw j
CROOKEDNESS OF INDEPENDENTISil]
But what would have been the
measure' of your ^amazement when
you found that the men denounced
as “ ringsters,” “tradei , s”'and “trick!
jters”_ were the / Democrats and pa
triots who deefve those plunderers
from power ?,{{Cheers.] “A good
Democrat,” bet not one word of de-
nonciaticu for Radicals. “A good-
Desooeriit,” but vials of wrath for
THE GENERAL’S SPEECH—A MAGNIFI
CENT PRESENTATION OF SOUND,
ministration of government, then rea-
son-isa-madman andlogical sequences
jMtBMt existence. .
Take care young men, lest when
you have broken this party in twain,
the organized Republican party rush
DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE—THE FOL-
• { • ; i
LY OF INDEPEN DENTI8M LAID
H»vtoi rotnrseC fhAn his visit to Europe, dc-.
m to thank hi* friends sod patron*, of
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Saloa PcriahaWa Property, to'diya, paraft-.. 150
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Examptlos Notion (In adnnn). 2 25
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of Clarice county.
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PRAC3TIOAL
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JEWELER.
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AVhero he is prepared to do
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LA.W STOTICES.
THE PEOPLES CHIEF.
The Ovation to Gen. Gordon
On Wednesday evening, the 20th
ult., in the Slate Capitol, Represen
tative Ilall, Senator Gordon supple-
uieuted his virtually uuaniin
election to the tTnitcd States
B f B. TIIRAHIIEU,
ATTORNEY AT LAV/,
AVutkinsville, Gx
Offloc in former Ordinary’s Office.
janM-llTVly
O. THOMSON,
[ , ATTORNEY AT LAW, „
attentien puid to criminal practice-.
rinS.™ apply' Vo Ex-Gov. T. if. Watte
and Hon. David Olopton, Montgomery, Ala.
Offioa ovor Post-Offlcc Athens, Gx
feb8-’875-tf
Ioims Harrow,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office over Talmudic, Hodgson <fc Co.
janfe-ly
Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb,
a II. o mt,
| ATTORNEYS IT LAW, ,
Athens, Gx
Office iu Dcnpreo Budilin-,
fehS2-1876-ly . “
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JgRWIN A COBB,
ATTOBXKYS AT LAW,
Andrew J. Conn.
Athens, Ga.
Office on 0>raer of Broad and Thomas streets,
ever Childs, Nickerson & Co.
fob22-187(i-ly
a DOHTCII,
*- ’attorney-at -i.*w,
Carncsville, Ga.
J K. I.UMPItIN,
Attorney at Laic.
Office over Childs, Nickerson it Co.
Athens, Georgia,
Northern Circuit 73V
Oct.15.1878.ly.
G. C. Th.oaa.as.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
YVATKINSV1LLE, GA.
VFF1CE IN COURT-HOUSE, OPPOSITE
A 1
V Ordinary', Office. Personal attention to all
hnslness entrusted to his care.sp»-tt
^SUBURY . MoCURBY,
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Haxtwxu, Gxoxuia, ■ - - -
Willi practice in the Superior Courts of North-
uaatGeoijfla and Supreme Court at Atlanta. -
Ant 8. 1876 tf - " * *
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga. "
Comer of College Avenue
cet, also at the Court House,
nircriminrf wumnts, cun get
Mm Raitobd.
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at Law,
. Counseflat’u fjfel SoHdtor’s in Equity,
bran, Pulaski County, Ga Special and im-
... '*m
business con-
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lands look-
and
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lands,
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SCHOOL BOOKS!
AU of the School Books in use at the
Lucy Cobb Institute,
lit Madame Sosnawski’s Hon
AND AT TnE
Various Schools in the City,
nate,
by delivering before a tremendous
audience one of those powerful and
magnificent speeches for which he is
funed throughout the union. It was
spoken to a packed audience, com
posed of the members of the general
assembly end possibly a thousand
other entranced and admiring listen-
t l-s as folows:
Fellow-citizens and Gentlemen of
the General Assembly—The verdict
just rendered upon my stewardship
as a public servant is enough to pene
trate the innermost core o! any man’s
sensibilities ; and I should be a libel
upon myself, as well as upon our
common humanity, if I did not feel it
most proundly. Never before have
my sensibilities been so stirred by
any event. Never before has my
sense of gratefulness to my country-,
men fieen so awakened ns by this ex
pression of your renewed and contin
ued confidence by the almost unani
mous vote of this great people. [Ap
plause.] Never belovc have 1 felt so
keenly the responsibility which your
partiality imposes, bnt which I trust I
.may accept without undue presump
tion. My life, like tbatrof othertcen,
has not been tvilhotit its responsibili
ties. There were times during the
recent war when the fate of the battle,
of the army and of your cause seemed
to rest on the courage, the fidelity
and endurance of the few men around
me. These tvere times since the war
at Washington when the defense of
your honor, your good name and
yotn'-liberties was committed tothe
few men who shared with me there
the confidence of the Southern people,
l'lieie were times of grave responsi
bility. They were times when words
were things, when silence was oft-
times wisdom and forbearance was
courage, [Applause], when these Re
publican leaders were seeking to pro
voke your representatives to rash
words and recriminations in order to
arouse the North and precipilatc the
horrors of another collision which
would have wrapped your homes in
flames and left them a chirred and
smoking ruin. No man but those
who served you then can ever know
the agony of that awful suspense, nor
fully appreciate the dangers that
surrounded your liberties; and when
last the cause of these Southern
States could be voiced in that cham
ber and could find an audience in
every section of. the couniry, the op
portunity was not lost by yonr repre
sentatives. [Applause.]
But perilous as were these times,
never before, as it seems to me, were
the embarrassments which environ
the country more muncro.us than
now nor required for their solution a
higher . order of statesmanship.
Take any period of our history and
weigh the difficulties to be encounter
ed. Before the war, and for the first
seventy-five years of enr existece, the
questions which divided parties were
mainly those of policy or expediency,
and did not involve the great ques
tions of local government nor imperil
liberty.
And after the war there was but
one question—the Southern question.
It was a momentous question but it
was net embarrassed by other ques
tions.
But now, with a great debt press
ing heavily upon us, with our indus
tries dead, with the public mind strain
ing after relief and the great financial
problem still unsolved, there come to
our ears the tnutterings of a wide
spread social disorder which threatens
to bring additional ruiu in its track,
and wilh these embarrassing questions
requiring dispassionate . discussion,
here are tlic leaders of ope great
parly reorganizing its broken ranks
on the basis of avowed 'hostility, to
thfe’ people of one portion of thehin-
ipn, anil in the face of that fact here
is our -own party, In .our own midst,
threatened with disintegration.” Our
lines oi defense seem to be wavering,
ready to break, while the bugles are
sounding another charge upon those
lines.
What are you to do about it?
What is your duty? That is the
great question. My answer to it |s
short. Your first duty is to stand
by the paity which maiutaios your
My second proposition is that the
issues between these two parties are
made np—the lines are drawn and
they are broad and deep lines—as
jbtpad aud deep as the gulf which
divides a confederated republic
from a consolidated empire. - [Ap
plause]
Which side are yon on? You
might to be on the side of the Dem
ocratic party, because it stands on
the Old doctrines of the fathers, that
this is a government of limited powers,
that the powers not granted to the
general^overnioffiDt are reserved to
the states—that is is essential to lib-
_ erty that the states manage their
local aifiiirsJu their out.
from federal ’intervention—1
onels at the polls are the vangnard of
tyranny—that the control of votes at
the polls by federal force is the con
summation of tyranny and the death
of liberty.
You ought to stand by the Demo
cratic party, because it is the party
of the (Constitution, and the Constitu
tion is the supreme law and the right
arm of your defense. The Derao-
cratic party has never deni>nnced~tli£
Constitution, never profchwned"' a
higher law in politics than the Con
stitution, never stretched or warped
and perverted the Constitution so as
to justify the forcing upon states
those diabolisms called governments,
which so long cursed and crushed the
South.
These are familiar truths, I know,
but they are great truths and cannot
be too often repeated, nor too solemn
ly impressed upon the young men of
the country. Why, look at the old
Jews. They not only taught their
laws in the schools, but wrote them
on the door-posts, and on the palms
of the hands, and engraved them on
the memory. And what was the
result? I undertake to say that no
people, exasperated, dispersed in all
lauds, derided in all tongues, “ the
jest of folly and the scorn of pride ’’
over lived, who, like these Jews,
maintained their principles for 2,000
years, with such unyielding constancy
and unrivalled devotion. Now, I do
not wish the young men of thO'coun-
try to become Jews in faith, but do
want them to learn u lesson of politi
cal wisdom from this chapter of the
Jewish history. .*
You ought to stand by the Demo
cratic party, because to place it in
power is to reform the abuses of the'
government. Now I am not going
to say that a man is a better man in
the sight of Heaven because lie is a
Democrat. Nor do I intend to say
that the large body of Domocrals are
saints and the large body of Aha Re
publicans siuneis. But I do mean to
say that the Republican party came
into power under circumstances so
peculiar, and maintains its power by
means so tvrong, that practices have
grown up under it utterly subversive
of our institutions, and in the last
degree corrupting to the peopje. I
do mean to say that the spirit of cor
ruption has crept into the one and
that the spirit of reform nerves the
other. I do mean to say that if
Democrats get into power Yve shall
no longer witness the spectacle of
cabinet officers hurrying in their
resignations, and a President hasten*
iug to accept them as shield against
the penalty which the law inflicts.
[Loud applause.] No longer shall
the American citizen’s, at home aad
abroad,'bavBtheblush of shame man
tle his cheeks because of the com
ments cf the foreign press upon the
degrading practices of the American
Repubfic. [Loud applause.]
Rot you should stand by the Dem
ocratic party because it is the only
paity of your defense, and because of
the open threats of the Republican
leaders to renew the war upon your
political rights. Have you read the
Republican press and the utterances
of Republican leaders during the
recent campaign. They have re
opened a fire as concentrated and
persistent as that of the allies on the
fortress of Sebastopol. Look at the
declarations of the. honorable Secre
tary of the Treasury, charging that
the spirit of rebellion against the
government is rife at the South.
Look at the utterance of the distin
guished Senator from New York
who is certainly one of the most com
manding men in that party.
Look at the still more recent and
mere remarkable utterances of the
Senator from Maine, thau whom no
man in that party speaks with greater
authority.
Let me read you a few sentences
from that Senator. He says
“The Confederate soldiers to-day
discussion, J casting, two votes in control of our
’■national policy, when the union sol
dier in Pennsylvania and New Engs
land casts biit one.”
Now, the mistake Mr. Blaine
makes in this connection is that he
ha£bolli juglpr and the politics of the
double voter wrong. It is the col
ored Republican who votes twice tq
organized Democrats once (laughter)
and that’s the reason the Democrats
were beaten up here in the seventh
district. (Great laughter )
But, what else docs this Senator
say ? “We will be compelled iu the
end, from self-interest and self-pro
tection, to resort to that which at the
can party at the North,' who
have been misled by these,leaders,
who, if they sawyou^ danger and
the reactionary danger fo their
liberties, -(and God grant that some
power may enable them to see it be
fore it is too late) [loud applause],
who, I say, if they saw this common
danger would unite with yOu to avert
it [Applause]. There are hundreds
of thousands of Christian men in that"
party who do not sympathize,.''With
these wrongs, whose beam *d)fied
jnotinlaius Which organize them-
info .rivulets and these (nto
these into seas/ to the
jroll in .grandeur on high.
[Applause.] And none of the great
purposes of-inan, whether of material
Tavelopmenk religion or government,
fin be secured, without-it- Govem-
ifcient iteelf is organization. • Law is
organization,. and. party.is or^
Poo, and I assert that no party/ever
did, nor ever will establish its princi
ples as the policy of tips government
'without organization. [Continued
appliWMft] Why, the old Whigs tried
r They said lot ns be in-
dot, --lpt everybody vote for"
i
our OTfiv'e caniTid
for President and were overwheli
by the moat disastrous defeat. But
in 1800 they organized, called a con
vention and nominated a candidate.
What was the result ? They swept
this ebuntry with a majority rarely
equaled in the history of.political
campaigns. [Applause.]
J [ >’ JEFfEBSONIAN DEMOCRACY. f
But we are told that Mr. Jefferson
says that we must not only obey* the
will of the Democratic majority, hut
over the riceut afflictions of Southern , ,, , . , - ,,-
cities, and whose purses were emptied, lh -° £“ dom of
to relievo southern sufferimr. IAd4 Yes, Mr. y effettOB.says'ihat;
to relieve southern suffering. lAp-j
planse.] Tbat was a spectacle, must guard w»i
which presented the
countrymen,
better side of those raeu, and it was
a spectacle which touched and moved
tlie great Southern heart aud caused
it to beat once more in responsive
throbs to the great heart of the
North, as
“ Deep callctli unto deep.” *
[Loud applause] And Southern
prayers ascended that Jehovah would
not only reward them a thousand
fold, but that these waves of sympa
thy rolfug across the continent and
breaking around these scathed enters
of heaven inflicted sorrow might melt
down the icy barriers that divided the
sections, and that this great Southern
woe, made national by God-like
sympathies might become the grave
of all sectional animosities. [Loud
and prolonged applause.]
But now what a revolting Contrast!
At the very hour when Southern
affliction and Northern beneficence
wera bringing tegqjber these estrang
ed sections and binding them in the
ied so that they cannot utr.
"—* ^'*ifiimciaUon^agaiij^t
[Laughter and ap
plause] bnt tongues turned loose at’ 1
both ends against organized Demoo--1
racy! [Laughter and applause.]
That position won’t do; it won’t hold,
water; it is full of holes from rim to
bottom.
It is a great wrong, my country
men ; it is a wrong to us; it is a
wrong to "Democratic principles; it
is a wrong to liberty, and it almost
breaks the back ot confidence in a re
publican government and dims all
Uope-of-ultimate tumofss to fimLat-fhe
bonds of living sympathies these
leaded—grave senators—peek/ to
reopen the wounds that' were heaHng
aud to revive the passiohs’that were
dying. What .a spectacle! What a
work for men udou whose shoulders
rest the responsibilities Of a represen-
tatii e government! What an hour
for such.(A work! At a mpment
when peice- prevailed all over the
land, when the black man and the
white luan were being given by De
mocratic legislation the blessings of
education and good government;
when the south, bowed witli sorrow
and filled with gratitndo, is reaching
out its arms to embrace its country
men, these leaders seize again the
faded bloody shirt, plunge it in the
chronic crimson vat, run it up the
party staff and fly it as the symbol of
a new civilization and a “ restored
union.” Why, really, men who never
saw us would imagine that the South
was one vast volcano, worse than a
volcano, for even .Etna, I believe,has
its periods of rest and Vesnvins its
seasons of repose. The South—
never! But is ever belching from its
ever-open craters volumes pf smoke,
and brimstone, and bloodT Well, we
read somewhere tbat even the sun
may be turned to blood, and itaetans
that these lefders intend -tSttjthe
North shall DMI wee tkeMM^Ct-
cept through a murky atmosphere of
passion filled with phantoms of lWifrid
oppressions and phantasmagoria of
blood, that have no existence save in
the maddened brain of these ministers
of hate. If, for no other reason than
to turn such tnen oot of ptithE^ou
ought to stand by the Democratic
party,
But I must pass to another branch
of the subject. To staac^ by tlie
Democratic party is to stand ’by its
organization. Now, in discussing
this part of the subject, I trjwtT will
give no offense to any man* Nothing
is farther from my purpose I would
not wonnd yon, my- independent
friends. I would rather call you bjick
Thorau’ Black, Blue or Violet Ink—tie beat In
tb« World—at 8 cent* per bottle. For bargalni In
orory thine, call at B DR ^ E , a ”
oept.10.tf
I BOOK-STORE.
Pottery Pictures!
Thu large*! and hudaumeat assortment of
w<5?o*j6 FfftfporrKRT decoration,
uver brought to Athens,
AT PANIC PRICES,
lor sals at
fa*
the freedom of elections. So I say;
so every Democrat says; so every old
line wing used to say; so every man
of eveiy party that ever existed iu
this country said until the republican
party trampled down that right and
controlled elections by federal force.
[Loud applause.] Why, fellow-
citizens, Mr. Jefferson was discussing
that very, freedom ot elections from
military force which the Democratic
party intends to restore to this govern
ment when it can control its policy.
Yet these words of Mr Jefferson are
heralded as an evidence of opposition
to organization. Thomas Jefferson a
disorganized Why, Mr. Jefferson
himself was the first nominee of the
first organized Democratic party,
and led it in its first triumph over the
party of centralization [Great Ap
plause.] But “ every man must be
a freeman and vote like a freeman !”
Yes, that is also true ; but there is a
greater, truth still, and that is that
every freeman, every lover of liberty
must so vote as to place in ..possession
of the government the party whose
principles will perpetuate liberty.
[Applause.] Do you think you will
make your ballots effective by break-
iug into fragments the friends of
thesejprinciples while its lovers are
compact and organized ? [Applause.]
Is -that the,sort of “ freedom of
eleesiotos”* Mr. Jefferson advocated ?-
Away with such sophistry to break
down the organization of which lie
was the founder.
My independent friends are fond ot
shouting “ independence now and in
dependence forever ?” That is what
Washington and his comrades fought
for, I believe, but my reading is that
they were somewhat organized. There
were those then who did not like
Washington as a leader, who tvere
convinced that they ought to have
been the leaders, but the great body
of tlie men who were with him did
riot stop to inquire who was the lead
er, but said to the convention at
Philadelphia, call the congress,
“.nominate the leader, designate
hini, put the flag in his hands and we
will follow,” and.whenever • his plume
waved, or his banner floated, this or
ganized band followed, and tliey fol
lowed to victory. [Loud applause.]
I commend to my independent friends
that |hjpft, chapter in the history of
the contest" lor iudependeuce." [Ap
plause ] '
Canaan lie out betcre us, seif-consti
tuted leaders are beckoning us
BACK INTO THE "WILDERNESS ?
by /the
to-
[A
ent
by appeals to war
arguments which fill
night, aud bring , yon
embrace of that putty
last hope of this people.,
Oil, no, my indepmdi
am not here to wonnd yon, but like
old Paul at Conntb, I am here agon
ized with apprehensions of the yntold
and intelligible evils which I solemnly
believe are to follow th'escT’fil^illess
and causeless dissensions. [Applause].
And like him I am.hFfaWplead for
tuiity among those of the same house
hold of faith. I am here to speak in
the cause of
DEMobBAXlb^OT^Ta
for the cause of Democratic tuiity is
the cause oflocal"setegfrernment by
these suites, a.id the cause of local
self-government is the: cause of Am-
cric m libei ty, and the cause of Am
erican liberty isthe cau^jOf hi
freedom throughout'••IH* e
S Loud applause ] But my judepen-
eut friends tell SEthiOro
principles. [Applause.] Your sa- Trtttset we should have resorted to
crcd duty is to stand by the parly of
your principles; [applause] and your
third and highest duty as patriots.is
to stand by the party of your princi
ples. [Applause.] I
The reasons why you ought to
stand by it and the marm:r in which*
you ought to stand by it will appear
as I proceed.
I wish to lay down two propositions,
the truth of which no fair-minded
man will diny. ; j
1. There are hut two great parties
in this country—tho organized Dem
ocratic national party and tlie orgnn-
from principle. In all the great fi
nancial and economic contests oi the
future the North cannot aud will not
permit the hostile Democratic power
of-the South to be doubled by tramp-
ling, under foot the rights ot the col-
’Sred cltizens.” \ «
My countrymen what does that
mean? litfrffijoan it mean bat an
avowal of a purpose to march troops
again to tlie pools, to control elec
tions by force, to compel the colored
man to vote, whether he would or
not, tlie Republican tioket, to call
tack the black-winged Harpies again
who so long fed ana fattened on yonr
substance ? TApplause.]
one in faith: but a
•.«*■■««—JjjSiiSSuiiiB
than you or i 1 tells us **lliat
without works is di
and cheers.] We ntfisi4#aY?-noi/bnly
unity of faith but unity of action, if
we would ever make available for the
purposes of liberty the great principles
of tliis party. _rApidaMiti~L - "
man l teil-nie*Hfr cin ’accmirpll
much for t^ese principles outside the
0tgaiiiiatictt.eg3*8idc£lBr he who ad
vances that theory flees in the teeth
of reason, experience gq^-ynature.
Organization / It is the la at of earth,
of hell and heaven. *Itrwah • recog
nized by the Gocahtad in thejereation
of the world and the' redemption of
man. It is written all over His works
from the dewdfopfe that tremble On
BOO B OF DISORGANIZATION.
What would have been the public
estimation of that knightly soldier,
Winfield Hancock, if during General
Grant’s march on Richmond he had
said to General Grant: “ Didn’t like
organization. I am a Jeffersonian
Democrat. I want to fight as a free
man—on my on hook!” ami in the
guise of a unionist had sought to
break down the organization of the
union army? .
But let me give yon a stronger il
lustration nearer home. What would
you have thought of me, if when
General Lee said: “ Drive the ene
my from that portion of the field,’’
silence that batte y,’’ or “ move on
those breastworks in front”—what
would yon have thought of me if I
had said: “ I am a confederate, but
you tvere nominated at Richmond. I
don’t like nominations. 1 am an in
dependent confederate I propose to
be leader myself. [Applause ] And,
then, when the long lines that
stretched off to the right and left
moved np wilh sullen tread, and the
battle was joined in, what would you
have said it/ instead of moving to the
front and firing on the common
enemy, Gordon’s corps had l>een or
dered by him to turn their guns
upon the organized confederates ? Is
that an unfair illustration of the posi
tion of our Independent friends?
Let us 6ee. Suppose you should
read a political speech iu one of the
daily papers of the ’State, and after
searching column after column, the
only penuuciations it contained were
of “rings, tricksters and traders.”
Now, suppose some one should in
form yon that this was a Democratic
ieech, would you not conclude that
is Democrat was hurling his invec
tives at,tho8o “ riuga” which -were
exposed in Washington—the credit
mobilier, the Sanborn contracts and
the dirty, filthy, greasy whisky ring,
which involved in its meshes high
officials of the government? You
would not have doubted that those
were tho rings be so vehemently de
nounced ; or else that he was holding
up fur pubflo reprobation those other
“rings” formed to capture these
Southern States after the war, and
wliioh bound Georgia, like old
Prometheus, to the rook while these
carpet-bag “tricksters” and “traders^ Wbj do
[Continued applause.] They say tho
party is controlled by rings. It that
is true, what is the best thing to bo
done? Get the good men of the
party together and break down the
rings. There are good men enough
in this organization to control the
nominations. Honesty has not en
tirely fled from the Democratic party.
There are are some good men still
left in it, and unselfish patriotism is
not all dead. [Applause.] Get the
good men of tne party together, in
side of the organization, to break
down the rings, if any exist. If there
be wrong in the church get the good
men together and put down the
wrong, but don’t quit the church and
undertake to run an Independent gos
pel on your own hook, [laughter and
applause,] and joiu the outsiders to
breakdown the church. [Applause.]
not good doctriue by any
Scriptures that I ever read. Nomi
nations controlled by cliques and
comity, court lawyers. If tbat be true
the common sense course is to rally
a'l classes of citizens and correct the
abuse; but don’t go outside and de
nounce the lawyers, and by appeals
to prejudice array one class of citi-
Zens againet Another class of citizens
and thus destroy the best interests of
all classes of citizens. That is com
munism. And woe be to that man
or set of men who invoke for this
peaceful section that spirit pf discord
which filled the North with appre
hension and France with fire and
blood and terror! [Load ap
plause.]
I must close this"portion of the d^-
cussion, for, if I haven’t said, enough
to convince this people; of the neceffii
ty for organization, I have said
enough to weary them. lucopld
talk all night upon this Bubject' and
draw arguments from all fields, bbt
what is the necessity ? t -•
Before closing I wish, to say due
word
TO THE YOUNG1CEN J
of the country. You are the coming
trustees of these Democratic institu
tions, and these institutions rest uptfn
the Democratic principles which I
have Mlempted to set forth and en
force, and great parties are Hie uity-
ral and necessary agencies for tho
promotion of these principles. In
this connection I wish to repeat the
remark with which I set out, that in
this country there are only two great
parties, the Democratic and the Re
publican parties; the one, conceived
in passion, born of fanaticism and
baptized iu blood, has, from, its ac
cession to power, marched with rapid
and straight strides over these prin
ciples, over State governments and
the Constitution to an increase of
jowqr .in the central government.
Applause.] The other, beginning
its existence with the Constitution,
conforming its practices'to the Con
stitution, proclaims and defenda jhat
instrument as the fundamental, invio
lable. omnipotent charier ot all
human rights on this continent.
[Great applause.] One is the party
ot passion, power and privilege; the
other is the party of peace, of law
and of liberty! [f^heers.] The, one
legislates for classes, for grasping
monopolies, for" colossal corporations
which despoil the pqoglei The other,
confining itself within the limits of
the written Constitution, keeps stead
ily in view the weal and safety of $11
classes, all communities and all sec
tions of this great country. [Great
applause,]
Where is the room for a third par
ty with such issues as these divkuag
the people? It would of necessity
be ground to powder between those
upper and nether mill-stones.''■[t
would be but a bubble to flash a
faint and false hope for a time, only
to burst and vanish and mingle in the
waters of these great streams. [Ap
plause.] * u
My young friends, let me .say to
you with greater emphasis than I
could prior to the senatorial election,
(for having been chosen toe six years
service no man con charge me with a
selfish motive,) let’me say to ycu tliat
yon are not only bringing damage to
this country and destroying tbe^arty
which maintained your principles, but
you are sapping the foundations of
your own political character. [Great
applause.^ Youoould not organize
and keep in position a third party i£
you were to try,, and you ought;,not
to do so if you could. It wooldim a;
damage to the country and to your
own manhood and political iuture.
and seize the
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care lest when yon accomplish inde-
Jency, you have a candidate for
ernor from every section of the
State and a candidate for President
from every section of the union.
Pause, I beseech yon, and think be
fore you scatter these seeds of dissen-
tiobs—oh think what “the harvest
maybe.” (Prolonged applause.)
But do you tell me that if you
,gave up your independent movement
it will lose "you your chances. Yoang
men, if youAye ambitious and want
office yon rah secure it inside the
Democratic organization by showing
. to the country that yon are necessary
to its service. Let the country ace
that you not only have the ability to
lead, but the devotion to follow, and
qronr sacrifice will not go long unre
warded ! (Great applause.) I read
somewhere of a distinguished Eng
lish Clergyman who was upbraided
for throwing away opportunities of
preferment, and was asked by his
friend, “Why are you always impa
ling your chances of success upon a
point of conscience ? Do yon know
what became of the man who was
always standing on conscience ?”
“Yes,” replied the clergyman, “He
tvas crucified on Calvary. He not
Duly gave up riches and honors, but
even His life ; but on the third day
He rose again with omnipotence in
His arm and salvation for mankind !”
[Applause.] God forbid that I
should compare the sacrifice I invite
you to make to that infinite sacrifice
made by the Son of Man, but let me
say that if you w ill crucify your am
bition on the cross of principle,
though it may prove your political
grave for a time, you shall rise again
in the glory of a renewed and ex
alted manhood and with the assur
ances of a nobler and grander suc
cess. [Continued rounds of ap
plause ]
‘COME BACK MY FRIENDS COME BACK.’
-These disscusions will Rot only de-
story yonr political future, but will
bring palsy to the arms of our allies
at the North now raised to strike for
our liberties as well as their own.
Come back! I saw men in this dis
trict above us who wanted to come
back, but they had done so much and
said so much, and some tiad bet so
much, that they could not get back.
[Laughter.] They did not know how
to come back. They did not like the
idea of abandoning an enterprise once
|)$g}in. That is natural. They did
pot like the criticisms that would be
made upon their consistency. That
is natural, too. But the best rule is,
when you find you are wrong tarn
bade. “Be sure yon are right and
then go ahead.’’ [Applause.] They
applied some not very complimentary
epithets to me because I answered
the call t>f this party and obeyed the
diotates of my conscience and de
eded these principles. Bnt this did
hot hurt much. If it bad I should
have proven myself very unworthy
the high trust reposed in me by this
people had I permitted this or a ay
other cause to seal my lips and silet ce
my tongue when the party which
supported these great principles was
a-sa-led and summoned me to speak
in its defense. [Repeated applause.]
Suoh principles are worth detending,
even if it costs some sacrifice. Truth
is the aivinest thing on earth, and yet
how long would truth live if there
were no sacrifice for it? You re
member they burned old Latimer at
the stake because he would not give
np truth. But who would not rath,
er be Latimer, with his untarnished
soul ascending to heaven in flame,
than to be the man who piled the
fagots about him ? Who would not
rather be a Southern Democrat,
though defeated, yet standing slioul
der to shonlder with our allies at tbe
North, battling ior these great priB
ciples of liberty and seeking to bring
repose to this distracted country,
rather than to be the men, or triumph
by the aid of the men who bore the
tempest of passion aud wave the in
cendiary torches of bate at the doors
of this law-abiding people. (Great
applause.)
I do not wonder that the Repnbli-
■can leaders encourage these move-
Dipatd., I do not wonder that the
party of passion should aid a move-
irfent to break down the party of
peace. I do not wonder that the Re
publican press in our own midst en
courages the movement; for to break
idown our organization is to destroy
the party which drove them from
power, . Well, by their help a man
may get an office, bat that office with
all ot" its emoluments and honors is
not worth the sacrifice. What have
yoa been doing the past ten years?
There never has been a time since the
war when-you could not have done
th'it—when a man by taming his
back upon tho party of his principles
could not receive aid and comfort, and
pelhaps* office by the aid of these
Hfon.' Did; they not try to bribe you
lfjtthHBflWr drive you with threats,
disco it rage you by raying your party
w.oqld never get into power—that
there was too great a majority against
i&srad if you wanted office you had bet
ter leave it! They told you that you
were in a sinking ship, driven by ad
verse'winds and beaten by advcise
arm of federal power. BtVt ybii fftld
no:
“thisi is oua ship !** , -
It is the ship of our prlndplcsj^hh
ship of the Constitution ! It bears,
the ark of our covenanted libert&k ^
it plies the white flag of peace ana
we will save it or go down^ith it l
(Loud applause.) /You stood byyour
principles then. You worked, la
bored, hoped on. You organized and
ontested eyery.field., You caprared
irat the outposts and. then the picket
line/and the main Works and at last
Georgia was ours, (cheers) Akbenia
w*a ouru, and Tennessee, and *-Vrr
sas, and Texas,.and Louisiana, (grqpt
cheering) and . South ”
Florida. (Immense en(h
do you want to turh back For
Let me repeat that the enemy is
ganized and his bugle is sounding,
and shall it he said that when the
last great battle comes this old Geor
gia brigade—the foremost aud bravest
and most steadfast in the line—is the
first to break ? (Cheers and cries of
“No, no!’’)
I have no personal interest in this
matter which you have not, but my
he irt is bowed down. I rememhsr,
as do many of these men here to
night, Yvhat effect it used to produce
in the army when it was said : “The
brigade on the i ight is broken,” or
“tlie corps on the left has given
away,” ard I know what will be the
consternation of tho men of the north
when told that the whole Southern
line tvas broken. It will not dk!
Turn back, fall into line and forward!
(Cheers ) I know the difficulties are
very great, but the necessities an*
very urgent and the encouragements
are abundant. I have already shown
you what we have- accomplished.
You have ressous for great In'^e
hope in the good men of the Norte,
and when by tho he,p of tlie God m
liberty they shall bo able to see Mils
truth tliey will flock lo your stan
dard. There is hope here and hope
there—hope in you, iu your * oo."
sense and your unselfish patriotism—
hope in the grand principles upon
which you stand; but above all there
is hope in that great truth tor which
the verjr throne to Jehovah is pledged
—that justice shall triumph and liber
ty shall live 1 [Tremendous cheering.]
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