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ATLANTA. GEOEGIA.
Wednesday* Dccombar 23. >870.
pose of carrying out this infamy, and if you i will. Now, if anything in Amei
did not accept it, o' miki-g you accept a worse, j never wa dLputed teicre 11 this, ti
Kirpt of all These in carrying out that plan, they | were members of the Union on an equal foot-
American history
that the State's
Hon. B. H. Sill.
We publish in this morning’s issue of the In
telligencer the speech made by Mr. Hill at
the “ bush arbor” in Atlanta, on the 23d of July,
1S6S, during the great Democratic Mass Meet
ing, as a reply to Lis recent address to the peo
ple of Georgia. This speech is consistent with
his speech delivered at Davis’ Hall in the sum
mer of 1867, and with his opening aud closing
addresses at the Democratic Convention at Ma
con in December, ib67, and also with his notes
on the situation, and it may therefore be con
sidered a fair representation and illustration of
Mr. Hill’s opposition to the measures of recon
struction, and especially to “a Union of unequal
States” and to “negro supremacy”—it wiil show
what Mr. Hill was’ then and ant-1 1870. We
have aUghtJy differed with Air. Hi 11 in the views
held previous to his address, but never approved
of the personal abuse in his notes and speeches,
but we did heartily agree with him in contend*
ing for a Union of “equal States” and in his op
position to negro suffrage and their right to hold
office, aud it is only with us a matter oi deep
reg-rct that Mr. Hill has thought proper to
abandon those principles and to declare to the
world that all hope in the future for a change
must be abandoned.
Mr. Hill was fully identified with the Demo
cratic party, and completely committed to their
plallorms. In his own language he stood
“ upon the giorioua ancestral doctrine that the
States are equal, and that wbiic blood is supe
rior,” and we would to God that Mr. Hill was
still upon this giorioua ancestral doctrine, and
still in his own language contained in his ad
dress at Macon, when he says:
“The party which seeks to destroy these
wisely ordered and well balanced governments,
lramcd in 1787, ia one with which you can
make no compromise without being false to the
White race, false to the black race, false to the
Constitution, and false to every original and
fundamental principle on which the American
federative system rests.
It needs no wise mun, no annointed prophet,
therefore, to tell you your duty. That duty ts
as manifest as existence, and as important as
life. It is summed up in one sentence: Hold
on, hold on, hold on at all hazards and through
all sacrifices, to the Constitution of your fathers.’
and we will here add, and say to our friends
throughout, tho entire American continent, hold
on, and hold on. until the desired object shall
be accomplished.
The
From the Aagnsta Chr.
Atlanta
Sentinel.
Meeting.
SPEECH OF
Hon. B. H. HILL.
sent the military- hers; they sent an army
oi bayonets to make war upon a helpless
people as another means of accomplishing this
infamy and securing the form of your consent;
they came to some of your own public men—na
tives of Georgia and of the South—men whom
you had honored of old, and they bonght them
up as coadjutors in the work. [Cries of Joe
Brown.] No, I don’t allude to that man. I
tell you, my friends, his name forms a subjec'.
Ihat is becoming too vulgar lor reference in de
cent company. [Cheers ana laughter, and cries
oi “that’B so.”] i speak of a class, and I affirm
fearlessly, and I want ibe j>eople of the country
to know it, that there was not a single Southern
public man who advocated the acceptance of
this reconsiructim scheme who was not bought,
and bought with a price, by your enemies.
[Cheers.] The price has partially been paid.
ing; and there is no man from George Wash
ington down, whether high or low, wise or sim
ple, black or white, who ever had any idea that
the Union formed by the States was a Union ot
v/jequal States; it was always admitted that
the States were equal and each retained con
trol of the franchise. I state a mere fact and
history. Since the acknowledgement of our
independence, we have added twenty-four new
States to the Union, and ia every act admitting
a State as a member of this Union, it is dis
tinctly stated that she is admitted on an equal
footing with all the other States. Bat this Chi
cago Convention, with the Georgia Radicals in
it, tor the first time in American history makes
the declaration that the Union shall be a Union
cf unequal States. I want you all to remember
that point It is the great aim of the Radicals.
Where are you now, my good Union men ?
and you "are to pay the balance. [Laughter.] j You that wanted to get back into the Union,
What arguments did they use ? Did they ap- J and were willing to sacrifice everything for tbe
peal to your pnde, your honor, or your inter- i accomplishment of that object; you that con-
csU? Not at ail. They came among you and ! gratu’ated the country upon being again “in
traveled from the seaboard to the mountains,! the Union r” [A voice “none.”] It is a Union
and tnoy told t-n impoverished people, “If you ! in which the Southern States are vassals and
don’t accept this infamy the little property that i the Northern States are rulers. I want you to
you have left shall be confiscated, and "every hear it and to remember it. That is mere sheer
"When General Cobb had concluded liis ad
dress, several bands of music struck up various
popular airs, in different parts of the atbor, im
provised lor tho accommodation of the audi-
dience.;
The Hon. B. H. Hill then came forward and
laid:
Mr. President and Fellow Citizens : I espe
cially request entire quiet whiio 1 attempt to
address you to-day. In addition to the fact that
I have to lollow two gentlemen who havo no
Buperiors on this continent, 1 am, unfortunately,
laboring under considerable physical disability,
tho extent of which is not oven known to my
self
I greet you to-day, my countrymen, with a
joy and gladness no language can express.
One year ugo, 1 came, in my humble way,
to this same city, to speak to the people wbat'l
believe to be the words of truth and soberness.
There has been quite a change since then. On
that occasion, 1 met, in a quiet, retired room,
some half a dozen gtuttemeu, who had made up
their minds to brave tho storm that was coming
upon us at all hazard a That little band of halt
& dozen in that private room has swelled to-day
to thousands of freemen, in tire open air of this
onco mcro to be redeemed country. 1 must
confess that the history ol the past year is one
to me lull of cheer and rejoicing. I may differ
with most ot you, but I leel that during the past
twelve months the white race ot the Southern
Stales has done moro to manifest heroism, en
durance and courage than any other people have
ever maufteated on a hundred battle fields.—
[Cheers. 1 It is not uncommon lor a people to
ce defeated in battle ; it is not even altogether
new, unlortunatcly, that a people should lose
their cities and burry their deed ; that they
should bo cowed in thc-ir spirits, and should be
made almost hopeless ol the future. But there
is something else which is possessed by every
poople far more valuable than property, fur more
to be desired than cities, far more to be coveted
than the victories ot war, aud that thing you
Btill possess, notwithstanding your enemies
sought to destroy it. 1 mean your honor as a
people. There were two propositions made to
you, which I would briefly state, so that you
can Bee clcaily what I mean. The Hist propo
sition which allccted your honor was, that a
Congress in which you were not. represented—a
band ot foreigners, not one ol whom has ever
lived or expects to live upon your soil—nay,
man who havo avowed that they hate you,
claimed the right to destroy tho government
you had tormed, and to dictate to you the form
ation of a new government.
This was done, too, right in the teeth of the
Declaration ot Independence, which says that
all government derives its authority from the
consent of the governed. You are asked to
forfeit your honor because a band of foreigners
—men among whom you had no representa
tives—among whom you were denied represen
tation—who confess their hate of you—these
men claimed the right to destroy the govern
ment which you had formed, and to dictate the
formation of another in its stead. None but
slaves would have accteded to such a demand,
aDd none could have been other than slaves
Who would consent to it
The second reason why your honor, ns a peo
ple, was so seriously involved, is this : That in
the formation ol the new government which
this foreign power dictated it'was prescribed, as
a necessary condition, that the intelligent and
virtuous ot your people—those whom you had
all your life deemed worthy of the highest trust
—should be toibiddcn to participate, while
those who had been your slaves should be at
liberty, without discrimination, to participate.—
You were to form a government, under the dic
tation and by the direction ot a foreign power,
and you, in the formation of the government'
were to be deprived ol the services of the in -
telligence and virtue of your country, simple
because you had trusted them, and you had to
submit to the government beiDg formed by those
who had recently been yonr slaves, ignorant
and debased as they were. You will remember
now that these are reasons why your honor was
involved. The base Congress—the unprece
dentedly traitorous Congress who get their own
consent thus to attempt, in the "day of their
power, to dishonor an unarmed people—this
Congress, I say, had a vague, lingering suspi
cion of the dishonor of their scheme, end there
fore provided a plan by
fleem to spring from
I confess truly, that
ture; when 1 saw the issue and remembered
that no people had ever crown great who suf-
tared their honor to be sullied—no people bad
recovered from misfortune who had yielded
their honor to the enemy—when I re me mb-; red
all these things and ssw the condition of our
people, saw all tho dangers that surrounded
them and the power that dictated these terms.
Of God, thou and thou only, knowesi the anx
iety of my spirit I When the smoke of our
burning cities went up to heaven, and oar brave
men fell in battle, I was grieved exceedingly,
but when a whole people—millions ol freemen
—were asked—ordered—commanded by power
to sacrifice their honor at the bidding ot hate,
and there were found those who whimpered that
the sacrifice would be made, my heart did sink
Within me ; aud wte-u I remembered now the
means and apjdiances brought to tear to compel j
man of yeu shall be disfranchised!” Congress,
claiming to be all-powerful, installed an army
in your midst, and found citizens ready and
willing to urge, ha persuade, to intimidate and
to threaten & starving and almost helpless peo
ple.
Oh, my countrymen, proud as I know South
ern blood to be, don’t chide me, if in thi3 dark
hour, I felt uneasy; I confess that I did. I
watched the first election—the election for the
Convention—with interest. I happened to be
in New York city when the first election in the
South came ofi, and I shall never forget how
my hopes were lifted and my dc-eires fulfilled
on receipt of the first telegram from the South,
giving, as one of the facts connected with the
first day of the election, that the whites refused
to have anything to do with it I waited anx
iously for the second day, thinking that perhaps
the “superior race” had crowded in,; and the
whites were, on that account, unable to get to
the polls. [Laughter.] The second day came,
and brought the news that the whites had, al
most to a man, remained away from the poils—
only a few carpet-baggers and office seekers
voting, thus the election went on to the last. I
tell you, feliow-citizens, I moved among the in
habitants of the great commercial metropolis
prouder that day than ever before. I shall never
forget meeting some of the prominent men of
that city, one of whom said to me, “We had
been taught to believe that tho people of the
Booth would endorse this measure, and they
have had nothing to do with it.” “Why,” add
ed ho, “your people ure more honorable than
we gave them credit tor.” Well, the power
with the bayonet said that a Convention was
ordered. All knew, however, that it wa3 or
dered by negroes, not by whites—though, in
truth, nobody did order It but the bayonet and
certain scoundrels. The negroes never ordered
it. I exonerate the negroes. [Laughter.] 1
affirm to-day another great fact, which I want
to be remembered, and which, whenever the
occasion may demand, I stand prepared to sup
port. The Convention in Georgia was defeated
by thirty thousand votes! [Wild cheering.]
Ab, my friends, there is nothing like it in his
tory! You were poor, you were betrayed,
tempted, threatened—you were told that every-
man that didn’t vote for the Convention must
have his little remaining property confiscated,
besides being disfranchised, and that the list of
voters was to be used to ascertain who you
were.
Miserable threat! Frond people—noble peo
ple 1 The verdict you gave was that, though
many ol our gallant Bpirlts were sleeping under
the sod, there was heroism still in the South.
[Eutbasiastic cheers.] Well, the false conven
tion assembled and a thing called a constitution
was framed. It had to be ratified, aud a Gov
ern- r and officers had to be chosen, and what
was the appeal then? Oi course,if the South
ern white people approved the constitution, the
dishonor was complete. They had exhausted
appeals to your fears—you could net be fright
ened from your honor—and the next thing'was
to buy you up. Bo they put in the new Consti
tution something called relief. The lew men iu
the South (who, unfortunately, were Southern
men from accident or other cause) who had sold
themselves to engage this work, being entirely
conscious that they were bought up lor the pur
pose, thought, of couise, that the same means
would answer the balance of the people. They,
therefore, sought to buy you, and they promised
you relief. I came here to this very" city and I
took occasion to notiiy you that this promise
was put in the new Constitution for no other
purpose than to cheat you, and that the rogues
and hypocrites who put it ia, did so with the
distinct knowledge that it would be stricken out
after the eloction. The question was this: how
many men in Georgia are willing to confess
themselves no better than negroes iF they could
there get rid ot their debts ? how many of you
would be willing to bo negroes, if by being ne
groes you could"be excused from paying your
debts? Well, 1 came to this city in March to
inaugurate the fight on that question, and some
ot you, my friends, were weak-kneed. You
didn’t do right. A good many of you came to
me then and said, “Don’t you aav anything
against the Constitution: everybody "is going to
he sold.” It was a great wound to inflict upon
me. I was struggling for nothing on this earth
but to preserve toe honor of the people of Geor
gia, and, knowing that they could not. be fright
ened, I hoped they could not be bought. ' We
made the fight, and let the whole world know
it, the white people ot Georgia, by an over
whelming majority, refused to be bought.
Some lew men, 1 apprehend, are about ia the
category ot the poor negroes who voted for a
Convention to get “forty acres and a mule.”
Ah, you poor victims of a wily hypocrisy—ol
men to whom God gave a white skin by mis
take! [Laughter.] You who went upon the
public block, before your countrymen and the
world, and publicly proclaimed that you were
willing to be a negro, it, by being a negro, you
could be excused from paying your debts, how
do you leel to-day, alter agreeing to be a negro
and having to pay your debts, too. [Laughter.]
My friends, General Cobb made a request oi |
the military; I shan’t make any—never intend
ed to ; but I advise you poor fellows, to make
one. The only evidence of how you voted is
in the possession of the military. Go, then, be
fore they leave, and ask -them to burn up the re
cord. The great majority of the white people
spurned the bribe and despised the bribers, and
let it be forever remembered, to your pride and
honor, that the people of Georgia, under the
threat ot the bayonet, with the temptations oi
treachery all round and in the very ashes of
their poverty, have said to all mankind : “ We
can neither be frightened nor bought from oux
honor ” [Great cheering ]
I have said the military declared a conven
tion had been ordered, when there, was thirty
thousand majority against it. They also de
clared that Gordon was defeated, and that the
radical party had succeeded, when, in truth,
Gordon was elected by nearly ten thousand
votes. [Tremendous cheers ] I say that it is
so, counting the correctly registered voters and
correcting the frauds of the ballot. I repeat,
counting the honest registered voters, I say that
this Express Agent was largely defeated for
Governor, and he knows it, and they know it.
We won two victories, and wo won them
against the bayonet,against force, against fraud,
naked disunion in the most odious and traito
rous lorm in which the word was ever spoken.
[Great cheers.] It cuts the femoral artery; it
is a stab to the very heart, and destroys the
Union of equal States which our fathers formed.
I read with shame and mortification—(I
knew the poor fellow did not know much) I
read, I say, in the papers that this stupid Ex
press Agent, in the presence and under the
protection of force and treachery, went, yester
day, through the farce of being inaugurated a
miserable sham Governor of Georgia. Why,
every word he uttered shows he does not, this
day, know the difference between a restored
Union of equal States and a constructed new
Union of unequal States. Take that fact down;
pencil it carefully and take it to your hearts.
If I can teach you to take home with yon that
siDgle sentence, you will not have come here to
day in vain. There never was, in the history
of our people, such a bold, plain, palpable, uni
versally admitted cause ot war as that simple
statement in that Chicago platform.
And yet that is not all. You, gentlemen, who
think you are members of a Legislature—poor,
deluded souls, how I pity you 1—you who come
here aud go through tbe form of passing laws,
I want you to hear one thing. Not only is that
doctrine of unequal States in the Chicago plat
form, but it is in what you call your Omnibus
Admission Bill. That bill prescribes the man
ner in which you shall go back, and every one
of you who voted the other day to get back, as
you say, into the Uuion, agreed to the doctrine
that Georgia shall never have the right to do
what Ohio cau do; that Southern States shall
never have the right to do what the Northern
Stotcs can do. You agreed to remain forever
an unequal member of the Union. You agreed
that you would get back into the Union by con
senting that Georgia shall never have the power
to modify or to change her own State Consti
tution. as to her own will and pleasure. [A
voice: “ They didn’t know any better.”] An !
you renegades—you rogues—who tried to steal
your neighbors’ property aud could not do it.
Ah 1 ye men that adopted the Reconstruction
measures for the purpose of getting back into
the Union and then catching the Radicals by
changing the Constitution afterward. Are you
not caught—caught by Thad. Stevens—caught
by Charles Sumner ? I don’t know but one
thing that is worse, and that Is agreeing to be a
negro to get rid of your debts, aud then, after
becoming a negro, having your debts to pay.
[Cheers, with cries of “ Good.”
Remember, oh, my countrywomen—mothers,
teach it to your children as yon rock them in
their cradles, and ia the nursery ditties by
which you send them to sleep—tell them that
men—white men—Georgians—some of them
“ to the maDnor born ”—have come upon this
classical old hill and have deliberately put upon
record their solemn consent that the proud old
State of Georgia goe3 back into the Union on
the express condition that she shall never be
equal to other States. Oh, you renegades from
everything that can make you hope for even a
chance for being gentlemen. You have buried
the sovereignty ol your State; you have sullied
the character of your ancestors and agreed to
make vassals of your children. You have
agreed to wear a Radical yoke in order to vote
yourselves eight dollars "a day lor a few hot
days in summer. [Cheers.] That is the Union
we have—a Union of unequal States. Ye
cowardly, base disunion is ts ot the vilest type,
you aisg. ace humanity by calling honest men
rebels. That is not all. You have not only
agreed to inequality, but you have also agreed
to what is called the equality of races ; that is,
you have agreed to c-Quality among the races
as a condition of getting back into the Union;
and you have agreed that that shall never be
changed; out you are so given to lying that you
could not tell the truth even when you thought
it was to your interest to do it. [Laughter ]
Y'ou say iu your record that you have, agreed
to an equality of the races when you know,
you vile hypocrites, that the very agreement
you make includes the disfranchisement oi the
intelligent, virtuous and educated, and wealthy
white men, and that they shall not be allowed
to hold office in this country, or while any scal
awag or negro may. Is that equality? (Sev
eral cries of “ no.”) If the negro has a right to
vote and hold office, why not these men whom
you have always trusted? Oh, you whiled
sepulchres—ye who are degrading the poor
negro by your example of fraud and treach
ery. Ye vile renegades from every law
of God and every right of humanity, you
arc deceiving the unfortunate negro to his
ruin. (A voice, “that’s whet’s the matter,”) If
the negroes ever get a permanent right to vote in
this country, it must be by the consent ot the
people that live here. If the negroes, when this
infamous proposition was made to them by
more iniamous white men, to disfranchise the
white people, had come out and said publicly
and openly, "YIe are willing to accept the fran
chise ; if there is any benefit in political equality
we want it; hut we will never consent to dis
franchise the intelligent white men of this
country." If the negroes had come out and
said that they would have furnished an evidence
that they were capable of exercising tbe fran
chise. [A voice, “some of them did it."] Yes,
and those that did it must forever be remember
ed. You Radicals of the Legislature have
agreed to degrade your own State and people
and you have agreed that that degradation shal
be perpetual.
The question in this contest is, whether that
programme shall be carried out That is where
Grant stands, and where Colfax stands, and
where ali you vagabonds stand. Where do we
stand ? Where do Seymour and Blair stand ?
Upon the glorious ancestral doctrine that the
Stales are equal, and that white blood is supe
rior. (Loud applause) Now choose ye which
to get the consent of the white people to this
scheme of infamy, will they be able to do ii
hereafter ? How can they? They have appealed
to your fears and your avarice and taken advan
tage of your poverty, but they have been dis
appointed ; they have failed in their schemes,
My friends, I wish to pass now to another
subject The Issue has somewhat changed. I
have told you what tbe issue has been the
last twelve months, aud I wish to s f ate here,
in a few brief words, the main points in issue
now. Some who consented to be bought for
the purpose of inducing the people of the
South to accept this infamy offered this excuse:
They said thev were cot going to be Radicals,
they were not going to consent to negro gov
ernment, but they said, “ let us seem to go into
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0 this thing, let us go back into tbe Union, and
you to yield, i do rejoice in knowing that you ! dien we’d turn it all over, and do as we please.”
refused [cheers.] I have had only one point to ! Ihat was an argument based upon treachery
accomplish in inis struggle; some have trou
bled themsemlves about offices, others about
Votes, others yet about carrying the election
against the convention, and "still others about
the defeat of the constitution. For all of this i
care nothing; the great and only point which I
had ever ielt to be of serious consequence in
this struggle was to induce and persuade the
White people of the South never to consent to
this infamy. I knew that elections would fee
declared successful; I knew that, right or wrong,
they would say that the elections were carried.
They came in tor that purpose. That was not
the point with me. I wanted your women and
children to see; I wanted posterity to know; I
Wanted a record made so tn&t it could be read
by all men, now and forever, that the white peo
ple of the South refused to give their consent to
this iniquity. [Cheers.] Tnat is why I wrote
and spoke; that is why I despised, the "infamous
and defied the powerful. Still, feliow-citizens,
it was a time to fear. If 1 doubted ana trem
bled on that occasion do not bisrae me; Ii I
leared you would not be equal to the great cri
sis, don’t hide me. Remember the powerful in
fluence brought to bear. The Congress claimed
10 be 6U powerful, end they avowed their pur-
argnment
They had betrayed you, and they were Justify
ing {heir treachery to you by proving that they
were going to betray the Radicals. That sug
gestion deceived a great many people for a
time. For myself, I had nothing to do with it,
because I could not consent to join traitors.
I don’t believe iu treachery—do people ever
you will vote for. Boms ot you got scared last
tall for fear of hosing your property by confisca
tion ; others of you were afraid ot being dis
franchised; and others still were bought this
spring with relief. Where i3 relief now ? Echo
answers where ? (Cheers.) Now, come, my
friends, I know you feel very badly. I know
you don’t feel like associating with gentlemen;
come now, go home immediately, tell yonr wife
to put on yon a clean shirt (laughter and cheers,)
take a good wash with soap and warm water,
and then come back and be free and decent
white men. Come to our side of the question.
We will fry to forgive you, but you must come
quick. I admit that there are some of you I
wouid he very sorry to see come, for the reason
that I know our party would be betrayed very
soon. Still, you who didn’t know any better—
you who were sold—if you will clean up and
get ou a clean shirt, we will take you back.
(Cheers and laughter.) How many white men
| iu Georgia are going to say by their vote that
Georgia ia not an equal member of this Union
with Rhode Island, and that Virginia—proud
old Virginia—that State which has in its bosom
the ashes of Washington, and has furnished
more Presidents to this country than any other
Btate, shall not be the equal of Kansas ? I
want to know how many men in Georgia are
willing to say that the proud old Virginia shall
never be the equal of Kansas. I want to know,
too, bow many white men in Georgia are willing
to put upon the record, that pauperism shall fix
the burdens tor property, and ignorance and
vice shall prescribe the laws for intelligence and
virtu* ? Take this concern up here—take the
Radical wing of it and tell me how much prop
erty iu this State they possess. (A voice, “Joe
Brown has a good lot ot it, bat he stole it”) It
is true there is one man in the whole concern
that represents some property, and it is said he
stole it. [Cheers and laughter] I repeat, how
much property do the Radical members of this
thing
go down ^ posterity so infamous that when a
legitimafr Legislature shall have assembled
some unfortunate creatures, who may he com
pelled by Providence to call you father, wifi ap
ply to the Legislature to have their names
changed. I understand some of yon that voted
for that 14th Article, and voted to expunge re
lief call yourselves Democrats. You are vain,
deluded creatures if yon think that the Demo
cratic door will be ever open to receive you
with such a name. Such a vote is directly
against the Democratic platform, and directly
for the Radical platform, and most be repented
ol and changed.
Are these, then, the terms of the new Union ?
terms ot negro dominion, of pauperism in
power and ignorance in legislating. I gay such
terms will never succeed. The white people
have reiused to consent to them, and I tell you
that they will not consent to them, and you can
never establish any government permanently in
this country against the consent cf the white
people. The Supreme Court of the United
States made up their minds that the reconstruc
tion measures were unconstitutional and void,
but they were too cowardly to declare the de
clare the decision. This is a melancholy fact,
that the Supreme Judiciary of this country
should have given way so cowardly. But it
will not always be thus—it can not forever re
fuse to pronounce its decision. It is true, a
Radical Congress has taken away jurisdiction
in tbe McArdle case, but we shall have another
case. A gentleman, who is the only real Gover
nor of Georgia, is making a case in which juris
diction is given by the Constitution. [Cries ot
“three cheers tor Jenkins,” given by the whole
oudience] Yes, when I mention him, I men
tion & man who, in any age or nation, is worthy
to be a Governor! I tell yon, then, you who
trade in the respectability of yonr race—you
who are vendors of yonr people’s honor—I tell
you to-day that this very Court will pronounce
these acts unconstitutional and void, and every
thing done under them unconstitutional and
void.
But we have a party now organized, a strong
and a glorious party, with statesmen at Us head
and With correct principles ior its plttorm.—
From Maine to California the glorious tramp of
the Democracy is growing more and more dis
tinct, and by November a verdict will be pro
nounced f>y the great freemen of America that
shall gladden the hearts of patriots now and for
ever. [Cheers ] And when the people shall
have pronounced that verdict, the Court will
take courage and pronounce their judg
ment. Then, ah then, what wiil be
come of yon, ye isolated hypocrites—
all power to threaten gone, treachery exhausted,
Relief measures and Reconstruction measures
both dead, the Radical party out of Congress,
how on earth will you hide your shame thus
stripped naked to the gaze of the world in all
your unhidden infamy 1 what wdl become ol
you ? “Ye generation of vipers, how wili you
escape the damnation of hell ?” That’s what is
coming. Oh, it’s coming, tharjk God, it’s com
ing-coming to the cheer of the patriots aDd the
dismay of traitors. Yes, I tell you victory is
coming. We have suffered, and suffered much;
our comrades are sleeping. Ah, sleeping I many
ot them by the streams and in the valleys of
Georgia. They are sleeping on the banks of the
deep rolling Mississippi; they are sleeping ail
over Virginia, grander than the pyramids ot
Egypt and richer than the mines of India.
[Enthusiastic cheers] Spirit of our departed
braves, we are not dishonored yet! and though
the vile, the low, the corrupt and the puijured
are seeking to be our rulers, and have seized
upon our high places, the noble, the valiant and
the true are still left to u's, and through all our
borders are taking courage and hymning the
notes ol coming triumph. Ye miserable spawns
of political accidency, hatched by the putrid
growth of revolutionary corruption into an
ephemeral existence—renegades from every law
of God and violators ol every right of man—we
serve you with notice this day, that this victory
is coming. The men of the South and the men
ot the North—patriots everywhere—are sending
up their vows to heaven that this is and shall for
ever be a Union of equal States, and never a
hateful Union of unequal States. [Wild cheers,
lasting several minutes.] Men of pride, men oi
charier, women—thank God—without a dis
senting voice, and even children in their play
grounds, are proclaiming on hill-top and in val
ley that those whom God made superior shall
not be degraded to the dominion of the in
terior.
A few more words and I will close. If, as I
now hope aiyi bellive, we shall again have lib
erty and law under the Constitution, what shall
be done with those who have taken advantage
of these corrupt times to insult innocence, tram
ple upon rights, aDd oppress helplessness ? These
criminals wilt be smoog ns, and must be as
signed appropriate positions. What shall we
do with them ? Ye who have travailed through
the blood aud losses and sorrows of war for as
serting nothing but what the very framers ot
the Constitution taught was your right; ye who
have been taunted and reviled as rebels and
traitors; ye who have been disfranchised in the
land oi your fathers and made exiles in the
home of your birth; when this victory shall
come and we shall once more be tree men and
no longer insulted and oppressed by miserable
vagabonds and renegades, what shall we do
with the criminals ? I would not hurt a hair of
their heads, do them no personal harm, and de
prive them of no right Give them over—oh,
give over the miscreants, to the inextinguishable
hell of their own consciousness of infamy.—
But some things you must do lor the protection
of your children and of yourselves, and for the
vindication ot your honor, I affirm it, and I
want it heard. It is going to be the law of this
country and a law more irrepealable than the
laws of the Medes and Persians. Not one man
that dares record his vote for the inequality and
vassalage of the Southern States and the degra
dation ot his own race ought ever to be received
into a decent family in Georgia or in the South
now or hereafter. [Cries ot “never.”] And
this rule we can make now. If we have not
the power to help make the laws for our gov
ernment or for society, thank God we can at
least pass social laws for our owd homes. I
charge you this day, as yon honor your child
ren and your household and, would preserve
yonr good name for yonr posterity, never suffer
a single native renegade who votes for the vas
salage of these States and the disgrace of your
children and your race to darken your doors or
to speak to any member of your family. [Cries
of “good,” “ that’s right,” “hnrrah.”] You con
demn the poor victim to the penitentiary who
steals a horse or a hundred dollars, and yet
these miserable creatures have sought to bar
gain away everything that yon have or can
valae. You scorn the criminal who has violated
the penal laws ot your country. These miser
able renegades are faithless to every law of
Heaven and ol earth, and have used every
means to sell you to those who hate you, and to
place your lives and your all in tbe power of the
ignorant and debased. Another thing I insist
shall be done: A people who will not resent
such foul innovations of their right are not
worthy of freedom. [A voice “true.”] You
have been helpless—your great men have been
silenced; you surrenuered your arms to what
you thought was a gallant foe; yon surrendered
them under the assurances of protection, and
yet these men, your own citizens, many of them,
who hurried you to war have taken advantage
of your poverty and helplessness, and of the
presence of the bayonet; they have invaded
your households, they have stolen your prop
erty ; they have robbed yon of your goods; they
have joined the negro and the stranger to tax, in
sult and oppress you; they have, contrary to the
iaws of the land, forced into dungeons and be -
fore military commissions the proud freemen of
this country. You have been powerless to pre
vent these things. But my vow is recorded,
and I Bhall redeem it if I find the people willing
to sustain me. Men who have trampled upon
the rights ot the citizens ot Georgia at a time
when the laws were paralyzed shail feel the
power of that restored law when liberty is re-a
waked. Ye vile miscreants of the Convention,
who stole the money oi the State to pay your
per diem, I give yoa notice that you shall pay it
back. And there is a good legal principle which
I want you to remember, and that is that where
a number of men band themselves together for
the commission of a common purpose, each one
is responsible for what all the others do or get.
[Tremendous cheering ] And therefore, every
man who toek a portion of that stolen money
is liable tor every cent that negroes and carpet
baggers received, and we are going to make
them pay it. Ye constitution makers, ye men
that sprung at one bound from the penitentiaries
cf the country to frame constitutions for honest
people, ye men who oscillate from grand jury
rooms with charges ot perjury up to legislative
halls and other high places in the land, I serve
you with notice to-day that the money shall be
repaid with interest. And you who are depriv-
Bo did Judas feel sate when he helped eat tbe
Lord’s supper with the Lord. Caiuhu.
power in Rome. Arnold once held a commission
in the American army. And you—yon vile
creatures, whose infamy no epithet can describe
and no precedent parallel—yoa will find your
names more odious than those of Cataline and
Arnold combined. [Immense applause and long
laughter.] Return them, the day of grace is al
most passed. Reform now and wa will torgivo
you. I do not want a single man except a car
pet bagger to vote for the Chicago platform
And you, members of the Legislature, I will
talk to you kindly—you who voted for this in
famy the other day—The Fourteenth Amend
ment—mark what" 1 tell you. At the peril of
your respectability, go snd take it back. It is a
turn, when the law shall be again respected, and
good men shall again bo our rulers, we must
gather all the journals, and constitutions, and
enactments, and records of every character of
the conventions and assemblies, thus forced up
on us by lorce and fraud, and usurpation, and,
catching fire from Heaven, bom them up for
ever!
And right here, my countrymen, I want you
to understand that I am a candidate but for one
office on earth. [Several voices “ name it and
you shall have it.”] When the glorious day
shall come and the tree women and the free men
anQ the laughing children and the proud youth
of Georgia, shall gather together to fire the mis
erable, hideous record of infamy, let- tbe office
be mine to kindle the flames. [Tremendous
cheers lasting several mintea] That is all I
want. I wouid have my children know, I would
have my children’s children to know, if my
humble life shall be remembered so long, that
from first to last, through thick aud through
thin, I fought this attempt to disgrace our peo
ple and that at the sequel I kindled the fire that
consumed the infamous record of its existence.
That will be a proud day, my countrymen, that,
will be a glorious day when you and I can look
each other in the face and feel as no Grecian
ever felt—as no Roman ever felt, that we have
passed through the most trying ordeal iu the an
nals of humanity, and, as a people, nave come
out gold—pure gold. Take courage, my coun
trymen, that happy day shall come. The Union
of equal States as made by our fathers shall be
ours again. The disunion oi unequal States
which Radical treason seeks to make shall not
be. With the records of the vile attempt, we
will build the bonfire of the Constitution’s tri
umph. By its light we shall read joy in each
other’s faces. Around the burning pile we shall
gather our wives and little ones aud strike up
anew the song of our deliverance, and as the
ascending smoke shall rise high in the skie3, it
will wake the notes of our heroes in bhss, and
Heaven and earth shall ring with the universal
symphony: “Weil done! noble people!
Through sorrows the most bitter, through trials
the most severe, through misfortunes multiplied
and prolonged, you have passed v. ith your honor
unsullied growing brighter aud brighter. Enter
again into the joys ol freedom here and finally
into the realms of the good hereafter.”
Mr. Hill took his seat amidst the most vocif
erous applause.
From iha An.•uat.a Constitutionalist.
The Tlitrd Bay ana Victory.
The tremendous rally ol the Democracy, on
yesterday, accomplished the most glorious re
sults in Richmond county. A final and formal
count of the ballots by tho proper officials must
be awaited to certify the exact vote: but there
is little or no doubt as to the magnificent triumph
Of our cause and our ticket. The day is indeed
outs! In spite of the most infamous election
bill ever devised by the wit aud malignity of
man, the day is ours. In spite of corruption,
fraud aud the pressure of secret leagues upon
the ignorant blacks, the day is ours. Ia spite
of three days of contest, wherein the opportu
nities for Radical repeating were many aud al
most impossible of detection, the day is ours.
In spite of the encouragement of high authori
ties at Washington and the conspiracies of the
usurping government at Atlanta, the day is outs.
What words of more laudation are good enough
or siroug enough for the noble, the undaunted,
the out-and-out, the incompa'able Democracy
ol Richmond county and the city of Augusta!
Whatever other counties may have done, and
we believe a majority of them have, behaved
magnificently, we claim for Richmond a nont
place in the picture. What other county cau
show a better record ? Some, for aught v. e know,
may have done as well; but none could have
done better. We have had no turbulence, and
still, against prodigious advantages, we have
gained tbe victory. We claim lor tile press ot
this city a large part of the credit ior this re
sult. Man}' a weak brother might have
fallen away from the faith aud deserted the true
standard, had not the bugle blasts from the un
terrified and vigilant press of Augusta sounded
the .alarm from lime to time, and unceasingly
pointed out that the proper road to victory was
the path of principle But everlasting praise
be to the lion-hearted People who came up so
staunchly to the support oi the principle's of
the party. Immortal praise also to those of our
prominent men whose unflinching moral influ
ence has been more potent than an army with
banners. VV e feel that this is a time lor some
pardonable congratulations all round. It" is a
matter to be proud ol when ali have done so
well. It is the supreme oi .happiness at this
time that the work was accomplished not for
any.petty, selfish aims, but for the honor, the
honor, the credit and the renown ot Georgia!
In this tumultuous hour, however, we should
not forget that many dangers still beset our
path. Our foe is still puissant for evil, and may
giveus much trouble ere we reap the lull harvest
we have ad grandly earned. But come what
may, Georgia has proved herself a giant iu
might and a terror to tyrants and evil doers.
The central dd&potism may annoy us sorely vet,
and traitors at home may turn our joy into gall ;
but the power does not exist on earth wfiicti
can wrest from us the majesty of our self-respect
and the consciousness that, however, tempora
rily delayed the day of deliverance, vindication
and triumph will come at last and come with
the effulgence of the noon-tide sun.
Aa Advance of Demanded.
kha Brunswick Anrreat says: “ Wo arc in
ferior; i formed of an attempt to produce a general and
combined movement among the negrots a.ong
tho coast, and on the rice plantations m this
and adjoining counties, not to labor the incom
ing year for fess then one dollar and a halt per
day" One negro was recently threatened and
rou^hlv handled at the plantation of Mr. Lamb-
right, in this county, because he woulu not join
iu the morment. An order, we believe, has been
issued for the arrest of the ringleaders who at
tempted to force him to measures.
We hope these misguided people will think
for a moment of the toolish step they are taking.
It always takes two to make a bargain, aud this
attempt of labor to prescribe wages arbitran.y
without consultation with those who have to
pay them, or even the slightest consideration
for their rights and interests, is r.ot oniy
wrong in itself, but calculated to work most dis
astrously for the colored people themselves. It
is a mistake to suppose that negroes are the only
laborers t he world afiords. There are a plenty
ot people who need work and are starving tor
went of it, sud, while the planters of the bouth
prefer, on some accounts—the good of the negro
among them—to patronize the labor they have,
they will not consent to do so to their own rain.
Just such movements as the above will cause
them to look elsewhere for laborers, and, when
once here, what will become ot the negro ? Bet
ter think of these things in time. One dollar
aud fifty cents a day lor labor would break
every rice planter on the coast the first year.
And, what is more, if they agreed to pay it they
never would, and ior the best reason possible—
the labor oi the negro would never pay the
money.”
BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW YOllK ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Despair,
IPthereis anything that will kill a man, it is
despair. It has nerved the poor "victim, to
steady the knife on its way to his heart, to the
core of file. It has flung the proud ,woman
who stood in her beanty and loveliness, where
before life was worth living, into the filthy
throng to be trampled on, and and a filthy thing
herself, an outcast from human love, a poor
wanderer from the love of God. Men and. wo
men arc among us, on every side of us, who
take our handand speak a passing word, but
they do not live life; they live instead, an awful,
ever dying death. Hope is gone, aud they work
as the chick works, work as a machine. Turn
not too coldly, proud fortune, from a fairer one
who has fallen at your feet—she was better
than you once—she stood up longer than you
could have done—she is,, your sister— she is
God’s.
There is much truth in’fthe foregoing ’little
article from one of onr exchanges. Avoid
“ despair ” as you would a “ viper,” ana look
upon things that are lovely and good. Kind
ness begets kindness—and it is the best and
most wholesome law in the world.
The Election—Third and Last Day.—The
election has closed. Tnere have been no troops
here, and no election has ever passed more qui
etly. The count wiil sot commence until S A.
M to-day—hence the result cannot be given be-
toro to-morruw.
Ou yesterday 1,165 votes were polled, making
for tho three days 3,319. Oi theso, 1,507 were
whites, and 1,812 blacks, making a colored ma
jority ol 305 1; the Radical while vote num
bers 100, and the Democrats have gained 254
votes, the Democrats have won. The impres
sion among the knowing ones is that the Demo
crats have triumphed by 100 to 150 majority,
though both sides claim the victory. The long
est tally sneer will decide. The ballot box is
locked nightly in the vault in the Ordinary's
office.-*- Columbus Sun.
Information Wanted Respecting A Cal
ifornia Emigrant.—The friends and relatives
of Mather Brewer, formerly a citizen ot Putnam
county, Georgia, who started with a company
from Fort lloni, Arkansas, tor Sacramento, Cal
ifornia, in lt>66, desires to know whether he is
firing or dead. Any information respecting
him wili eonier a great lavor on his relations.
Address lion. Junius Wingfield, Eatonton, Put
nam county, Ga. Sacramento aud Little Rock
papers will confer a benefit upon a worthy fam
ily by extending this notice.
The Girls.—Can we not bring up our girls
more usefully, les3 showily, less dependent on
luxury and wealth ? Can we not teach them
from babyhood that to labor is a higher thing
than merely to enjoy; that even enjoyment
itself is never so sweet, as when it is earned ?
Can we not put into their minds, whatever be
their situation, principles of truth, simplicity of
taste, hopefulness, hatred of waste, and there
being firmly rooted, trust to their blossoming
up in whatever destiny the young maiden may
be called ?—Miss Muloch.
KOOiV DlfSl’ATCHJdS.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, December 24.—The weather
is very cold. The Acquia Creek boat arrived
at 11 o’clock, missing the connection with the
North.
Private advices from Georgia indicate that
tbe Democrats have carried five, with a close
race tor the remaining two Congressional Dis
tricts.
The Potomac river was frozen over this morn
ing.
KENTUCKY,
Louisville, December 24. —A fire, origina
ting in a hotel, has left but three Brandenburg
business houses standing. The loss is $109,000;
insurance $50,009.
NEW YORK.
New Yore, December 24.—The Rutherford
Park Hotel, in New Jersey, was destroyed by
fire early this morniDg. The loss is estimated
at $50,000. About one year ago the same hotel
was burned.
In an official dispatch, telegraphed from Lille
on the night of the 23d, General Faidberbi an
nounces to the Minister of War that his army
engaged the enemy at Port Noyelle on that day.
The battle lasted from 11 a. m. till 6 r. m. The
greatest portion of the time was consumed in
artillery dueling, which finally terminated by a
charge of the French infantry along the whole
line. The enemy was driven back and the
French remained masters of the field.
Advices from Paris, night of 22d, received by
baloon, which landod near Neuits, say that there
was no engagements that day, Thursday, but a
general battle regarded as eminent.
FOH^ISN.
London, December 23.—There was a most
satisfactory eclipse. Observation were taken
throughout England.
Bordeaux, December 24.—During the great
sortie from Paris Wednesday, Ducrat took many
hundred prisoners.
§< The general situation is more encouraging
tor the French.
The non-occupatioa of Tours, and the re
treat of other Prussian forces towards Orleans,
is said to be the result of the stratagetical
movements of Chaussy and Bourbaki.
Roueu has been almost evacuated by the
Prussians. There were only 1,500 there yes
terday.
Manteufel has undoubtedly moved his force
for;the purpose of opposing the march of tho
French army ot Ueu. Faidlu-rbe.
EVENING OI^Pa.TCUlB8.
RICHitlO^D.
The Councilman of Ailanta who shall pro
pose, at the next meeting, the application of
another coat of paint to the Broad-street bridge,
which is now going to decay, will be regarded
by his feliow-citizens aa a man of thought and
ot economical purpose. We would suggest that
the color be green, and well put on,—Index.
Kent, the chief of the Morriston (N. J.) in
cendiaries, was yesterday sentenced to the
State Prison for sixteen years. His six accom
plices were sentenced for terms of from one to
tour years.
A jury in Pittsburg, Pa., have the frill amount
ci an insurance policy, with interest, held by
one Ber hain, who committed suicide’two years
ago, in the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com
pany of New Jersey.
Young Folks’ Index.—During tbe holidays
we purpose issuing a paper for the special ben’
efit and entertainment oi a class ot our youth
ful readers and IrieDds who have not received
so large a share of our attention as it has been
our earnest desire to give them. True, we
have endeavored to provide for the wants of
all, and feel that none has been neglected
by the Index. Still, we have more to say, and
do not kuow how more appropriately to do so.
(as this number concludes the" 49th volume oi
the Index) than to send forth a young iolk’s pa
per with our prayers for their future usefulness
aud happiness.
The first number of the Christian Index, in
its present form, was issued by the present owner
and publisher in November, 1865, and as the
Christian, Index and South Western Baptist on the
the 6th ol January, 1866. The enterprise, at
that time was regarded by many wise brethren !
as of doubtful expediency. The political and !
fiuauciai condition of the" country "were r ot o' I
an encouraging character. The mail facilities i. ,, ...
of the country were imperfect and unsatisfac- • JCCtor - Spencer Harvey, Radical, was elected.
We feel confident the State has gone largely
Democratic; and had many of our friends ad
hered more sirongly to the Democratic faith
and principles, the majorities for the party
would have been much larger.
It has been a ' source of deep mortification to
us to witness the disposition, in certain locali
ties, on the part of Democrats —or, at least, those
who had been put forward by the party—to re
pudiate or compromise the principles of the
party.
The election is now over, and we may be ex
cused for saying that we will never support or
countenance any one for office who will not
have the nerve, candor, and independence
enough to proclaim and defend the principles
ot the party, without fear or the hope of re
ward.
Our motto is: A Union of equal States, and
opposition to negro supremacy. The issue is
piain, and we make it direct; and upon this
platform we shail continue to battle with the
weapon oi Reason and’ Truth.
POE THE ISTELLIOEKOEP..
Palmetto, Ga., December 23d, 1870.
- Editor, of Intelligences'’, For 41st Congress,—
W. F. Wright, 488; Betbune, 314; Bigby, 123.
For 42 d Congress,—W. F. Wright,, 476; Big by,
413 Dr. Goodman, (Democrat) 503; Dr. Zel-
iars, (Radical) 324; J. J. Bell,(Radical) 130.
Democratic ticket ali elected except Tax Col
tory. The minds or the people were d
pressed, as they viewed, from year to year,
the meagre products of their farms; later
was unreliable and expensive; taxes nigh,
and almost prohibitory in some things.
The picture is ssd. and we shall not pursue the
reminiscence. The paper has survived. It is
yet among the living enterprises ot the day,
and progress is our motto. With the blessing
of the Great, King, the future of the Index and
Baptist shal! be far in advance of its past. Our
aims and desires have not undergone any par-
ticulsr modification as to the work of the relig
ious press. We still feel, as we have ever felt,
that the advocacy of evangelical truth, tho
maintenance of the principles that distinguish
our denomination, the diffusion cf information
with regard to the benevolent aud Chrisfain en
terprises ot the age, the promotion of education,
temperance and good morals, are ends which
cannot be innocently disregarded, and which,
Above is a statement ot votes in
for Congress and Representatives.
Respectfully',
tn:s county
A. S. W.
:Gratitnd«.
To those who have aided us by patronage and
other acts of kindness we are under manv ob
ligations, and they have our best wishes. Lorn'
may they five and enjoy the blessings of life. 3
Richmond, December 24.—Thermometer at
8 o’clock stood six degrees. At Greenbrier,
White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia, to-day
thermometer six degrees below zero. Ice four
inches thick formed at Staunton.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, December 24. Secretary Fisk
gave a dinner to the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations. Sumner and Morton were
present.
Treasury Department baa information that
$1,000 was stolen from cashier’s office at New
Orleans Custom House, which Collector Casey
made good from his private means.
FOREIGN.
Berlin, December 24.—Bismarck’s circular
to the representatives ot North Germany says
the French officers are breaking paroles not to
serve ^during tbe present war aud that, the
French Government sanctions these proceed-
ings. Peremptory measnrea are to be taken to
check it.
Bordeaux, December 24.- -Harve is now so
strongly fortified that there are no fear3 ol an
attack. Ail the works about Havre are fully
manned.
Several war vessels have anchored before tbe
city.
Cherbourg is also regarded as impregnable to
any force the enemy can bring aginst it. The
fortifications on the laud side are completed,
and, as at Havre, frigates are stationed in the
roaus.
A balloon landed near Nuit with Paris dates
of 23d. No fighting, though a battle is immi
nent. The journals esfimatejthe French loss in
killed and wounded on 21st at 800; they speak
in glorious terms of the confidence and order
of the National Guard.
London, December 24.—The Prussians havo
left Deeppe but are encamped near by in heavy
force. Two French iron clads are stationed off
the port. Late despatches from Amiens report
Mantnuffel near that city, where the battle will
probably be fought. It ia again reported that
Ducrat left Pans in a balloon on the 17th to
take command of the army corps in the field.
The Brigantine Fearless, from Wilmington,
N. C., collided with Curana, forty miles off
Beachy Head. Fearless abandoned in a sinking
condition. Medora and Lake Michigan, both
from Montreal, report frightful weather. Med
ora is considerably damaged.
Six thousand Saxons left Saxony to subdue
the people of Rheims who have risen against
the Prussian commander.
It is said that the government at Paris will
send Thiers as representative to the London
Conference. It is reported also that the French
government has requested the English govern
ment to obtain egress from Paris for represen
tative.
A Brussels dispatch says General Frail Ilerbe
is being surrounded by the Prussians.
The Prussians have occupied Scissions and
Scssane.
A Versailles dispatch dated 22d, says a great
battle occurred between the united armies of
the Duke of Mecklenburg and Frederick Charles
and those of General Chansey, near Baulair.
The French were defeated and retreated toward
Alenson.
Turene, December 24.—Mont Genes Tunnel
will probably be completed to-morrow.
next to the pulpit, the religious journal most j 60,000.
The Savannah Republican says that all the
managers oi the election ior Brooks county, ap
pointed by Governor Bullock, are negroes^ '
. Boston merchants are signing a remonstrance
against the annexation of 8an Domingo.
Senator Drake holds over his resignation till
Monday in order to reply to Senator Schurz.
General McCook is in Washington urging the
immediate admission of Colorado as a State.
He claims that the territory has a population of
effectively advances. ThU3 ouriuture is defined.
Christian Index, Dec. 22d.
It is said that General Bchonck’s nomination
as Minister to England wiil not be sent to the
Senate till aiter the holidays, at his own re
quest.
^ Captain Samuel B. Johnston and Gilbert V.
Wilkinson, two of the oldest and most promi
nent inhabitants of Poughkeepsie, are both
dead.
saved themselves bv it. Where tbe honor m a i sent
ing that imagined itself a Legislature repre- I ing the people of liberty, threatening and con-
nl y i A voioc, ‘eight dollars a day.”] Yes, 1 soirine against their lives, (hold me responsible
■ ’ for what I say) I tea you that the day is coming
when the Juuges shall be in the prisoner’s box
and the persecutors shall be clamoring for
mercy. “ Thou shalt not take the life of liberty
but it does not represent taxable property
enough to pay their per diem. And these men
arc to make laws to tax disfranchised property
holders in this enlightened nineteenth century
and in this Christian country. Shame, shame!
Is there a member ot the Legislature who hears
me to-day f Ah, to your shame oe it said, more
than a hundred of you have so recorded your
names. Go, my friends, and take it back, tor I
charge you this day, ia this bright sun and in
this central city of Georgia, that if that record
remains as you have made it, whereby you have
covenanted aud agreed that these Southern
States shall be unequal members ot this Union
and that the intelligent men of this country
people is involed they cannot swerve from prin
ciple Ior the sake ot policy. The only line oi
hoGor is a direct one. Bat what is the result ?
Those manipulators at Washington who bought
these Southern men had more sense than the
men limy bought. They were not going to be
caught in any such a trap as that, acd in this
respect my prophecy has turned cut to be cor
rect. The issue now, then, is this: Shall this
infamy, which has been thrust upon the people
of Georgia and of the other Southern States,
be valid and perpetual ? That is the first point
to which 1 wish to direct your attention. In
order that it may be perpetual, the Chicago
platiorm says that the rights of the Northern
States to regulate the franchise and to change i sum ue uicn^^u^u -“i-—— -* j -crri - ,
and to modiiy their own Constitutions shad not j right to hold office, and that pauperism shall fix j Wicked men J®
be infringed, but the Southern people shall not! the burden of taxation, and vice and ignorance I bayonets to protect them, and they leel they can
have the right to change their Constitutions at ’ make lawB for intelligence and virtue, yon will insult and impress with impunity forever,
Hsroish in Economy.—Miss Muloch tells us
that it takes a heroine to be economical; for
wiil not many a woman rather run in debt for a
bonnet than wear her old one a year behind the
mode?—give a ball and stint the family dinner
for a month alter ?—lake a large house and fur
nish handsome reception rooms, while her
household is huddled together anyhow ? She
prelerred this a hundred times to staling plainly
by word or manner, “ My income is so much a
year. I don’t care wko knows it. It will doI
allow me to live bevoDd a certain rate; it wfil i ior the pardon of Dr. ri. B. I-in is, was in circu-
not keep comtortable both my family and ac- j laxioa aoout town, endorsed by about two hun-
quedntances. And, society, if you choose to j dred oi our most respectable merchants and
look in on upon us, you most just take us as j business men, and was intended to be presented
we are, without any pretense ot any kind ; or | to his Excellency, *hc- Governor, but sL..^, onr
you may shut me uocr ana say gooa-oye.” | first sigut ot me petition, we had lost ail trace of
* *• j it, until to-day, when we were informed it was
A tew 8nndays ago as Mr. Beecher was about j iu the hands of certain gentlemen, who proba-
James Kirby, an Irishman, about fifty years
of age, fell from a wharf in Bansor, Maine, on
Wednesday evening, and waa drowned.
That Petition.—Several days ago, a petition
or property of a citizen except according to the
laws of the land and by the judgment of his }
peers,” is the first and great commandment in
liberty’s decalogue, and upon it all the other
commandments hang. It was given as a con
cession from power to the people more than six
hundred yeare ago at the political Horeb of An-
g!o~Ssaxoc history, and no man from that day
has violated or disregarded it who was not a ty
rant or a traitor, or both. [Great cheers.] No
man in English history ever trampled upon those
■mail be disfranchised and deprived of their j sacred rights without being called to account,
. .. „ ... . ‘ : C harra the Timor • thov ham
commencing his sermon, a stout-, fatherly-look
ing man was endeavoring to make his way
through the crowd, to get within a better hear
ing distance of the distinguished orator. At
that moment Mr. Beechers voice rang out the
words of the text: “ s Who art thou?’ “ Who
art thou?” again cried out the dramatic
preacher. Theetout party,thinking himself in
the wrong, perhaps, by pressing forward, and
believing himself to be personally addressed,
startled the brethren and nonplu-sed their reve
rend chieftain by sedately replying: “I’m a
pig merchant from Chicago, sir. I hope you
ain’t mad. There ain’t nary chair, or else I’d a
sot down*” Plymouth church didn’t recover its
serenity far ten be rates.
bly require money, to induce them to take further
i action in the matter. «Wil! they not go further
with it, if in the cause of innocence, or shall
1 there be a subscription ? Somebody should see
to it. ^
Mr. George H. Hennings, at Ins popular os-
tablishmant, corner of Decatur & Ivy streets, is
doing more business in the grocery, cigar, veg
etable and poultrv line, than any two merchants
in bis vicinity. Why ? because he is a polite
gentleman, studious in business, demands small
profits, keeps the greatest and choicest variety
of goods, and as a consequence, more popular
ity. Just go and sre him this Christmas day
aud you wili be convinced.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
TENNESSEE,
Nashville, December 24.—At Shelbyville,
Stahl man, agent of Southern Express, was shot
in the arm by W. W. Wisener, son of the late
Radical candidate for Governor. Wisener then
shot Wallace, telegraph operator, when Wal
lace killed Wisener. The difficulty grew out of
refusal of the messenger to give Wisener receipt
for money paid on C. O. D. order.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, December 24—The case of
the Sheriff of Jackson county, indicted by a
Federal grand jury for a violation of the 15th
Amendment in collecting special tax from the
Chinese miners, will be tried as soon as possi
ble, as it invoices important political questions,
GEOKUA,
Augusta, December 24.—The returns received
show that the State has gone largely Djm-
ocratic. It ia thought that the following
Democrats are elected to Congress: First Dis
trict—\v. W. Paine, 44 it Congress; A. O Mc
Intyre. 43d Congress. Third District—Wm. F.
Wngm, 4lst and 42J Congress Fifth District—
S. A. Corker, 4lst Congress; D. M. Dubose, 42d
Congress. Sixth District—Wm. P. Prico, 41st
and 42d Congress. Seventh District—P M. B.
Young, 41st and 42d Congress. Fourth Dis
trict is doubtful—thought to be Republican-
will take official count to decide. The Dem
ocrats have elected three-fourths of the Legis
lature.
Dodge democratic; Tift 83 majority. Pike
demociatic. Lawton, 4.st Congress 288 ma
jority ; 43d, 469. Jones 100 radical. Baldwin
200 radical. Crawford hrgely Democratic. Pu
laski 400 democratic. Upson democratic; Law-
ton 86 majority. Butts 180 democratic. Wil
cox all democratic. Terreil 407 democratic.
It is believed at Albany that Titt is elected to
Congress. .
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