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OLD SE LI I EH, VOL. LXXVI. (Chronicle & icutinrl. 11 i:>ir v' moobe, a. It. UllKillT. PATRICK IV.VI.sH, Associate Krtltor. TIK 'I- «>1 -I liM KJI’TION. \ t res CHITA,' GTA : KKl»fthim MOK.MNb, AIM.'SI ■>. Scott k Magazine.—We have received the August number of this valuable South ern Monthly. In addition to the usual va riety, the present number contains seve ral very able and interesting articles, which will Well repay perusal. The Magazine is published by Phillips & Crew, Atlanta, Ga., at the low price of $4 00 a year. Free Baiuiecue.—We have been re quested to state that a Democratic Free Barbecue will be given on the Georgia Railroad, at the 21 mile post, in Columbia county, on the Bth of August. Generals Toombs, Cobh and Wright and lion. B. 11. Hill have been invited to address the people, and have signified their acceptance of the invitation. Lot there be a grand rally of the Democracy of Columbia and the adjoining counties. Crop Phompeots in Screven County. —-The following extract from a private letter to agentlcrpar, in this eity and dated the 2,5 th inst., gives rather an encourag i»g account of the crops in Scriven : "We have suffered some from drought, but we arc having rain now. crops are im proving. There is much lew Cotton plant ed this year and it looks better than usual. Corn is very low generally but -hoots pretty well. I think crops will turn out hotter than farmers think. The people her • are satisfied with the Democratic candidate fur the I’residency.” Revolt in Jail.—lt seems that the Chain Gang do not relish the new uniform wl lich a recent decree of the Military Council of this city requires them to wear. On Sunday morning last, when it was at tenipted to put it upon them, the entire gang resisted, and attempted to get out of the jail. They have wrecked the rooms in which they were confined, bending some of the iron bars ol one of the doors ; hut they were soon subdued by the jailor, Mr. S. S. f’arduc, and his assistant Mr. A. B. Crump, who finally succeeded in getting all hut four of thorn to put on the uniform. These latter were being put through a course of sprouts, yesterday morning, and will havo to give iu.no doubt,as the others have done. The (party went out to work yesterday morning with their prison uniform, utter ing imprecations upon the heads of the Scalawags,as they said,who hail forced this insult upon them ! lien. Hill’s (ifcat Speech. We present to our readers this morning a rich treat, in the great speech delivered in Atlanta by the lion. B. 11. Hill, on the 2.'id instant. Wo need not invoke for it a careful perusal. Wo know that it will be read with interest and delight by all true Southern men. This is the only authorized copy of that great-effort, and we have t pared neither pains or expensoto secure it for the grati fication of our readers. W r u shall print several thousand copies of this great speech, as the best campaign document which has yet been issued from the press. We invite orders from the different Democratic Clubs in the State, and will supply all who may desire it at a price bnroly covering the cost of printing. Send along your orders at once, as the first to order will bo the first served. Tlie Affray on Monday Night. Wo have but little to add to the par ticulars of the bloody affray of Monday night last, which we save iu our issue of yeiterday. Those particulars are sub stantially correct, and Rive the very best evidence of the unprotected oondition of our unfortunate city, and the necessity of taking sueb action as will place our muni cipal affairs in the hands of those who havo the right to conduct them. The Police officers had no more right to interfere in this affair than wo had; and when they fired upon citizens, who were not engaged in the commission of any crime, they been tno at once liable to the severest penalties of the law, and will, no doubt, be prosecuted to its farthest ex tent. (’apt. f’icquet, a gentleman with one leg, w:,s arrested and kept in Jail all night. Hail was offered and refused! Yesterday morning he was brought before 8. Levy, acting as Mayor and Recorder, and charged with a violation of the 21st Section of the General Ordinance, a bailable offence! lie fore ho could plead guilty or not guilty, Mr. Levy announced that the case would bo continued, on amount ol’tho absence of material witnesses. Upon consultation between the counsel, the investigation was fixed for Monday week, Mr. Redd died about seven o'clock last evening. The other parties are all doing well. We have no doubt that the entire affair will undergo judicial investigation and proper punishment be meted out where deserved. | COMMUNICATE.] f BaXDKRSVIt.t.f, Ga., July 25, 1868. Eiiitors (')ironicle & Sentinel: Permit a Dutchman the privilege of occupying a ■ small space in your columns. He claims ! it on the score of “ having done the Btate j some service iu times that tried meu’s I fin sneeiul Telegram from Atlanta, in 1 last Friday's issue of your valuable paper, contains extracts from the s’leieh made 1 y Judge Wm. Gibson at Atlanta, before 1 i Radical crowd, which outherods Joe Brown in his advocacy of Radicalism. j Your reporter says: ‘'that the Ex-Col- ! onel of the -Gth Georgia instituted an i elaborate parallel between the negroes and foreigners and ended by declaring that he ; “would rather entrust negroes with the 1 ballot than Irish and Dutch. 1 could hardly believe my senses, when I l read i\ that such sentiments were ex- . pressed by Judge Gibson, who presided in I See ov er the Senate and was subsequent- ] ly elected to t*-» Judgeship of the Middle ■ Circuit, upon his war record, over the head j of as pure a man as ever drew breath; that | this is the identical Judge Gibson ut>on j whom (in the fullsome language of a Washington County Grand Jury) the 1 mantle of the lamented Judge Holt has ! so worthily fallen ; that this is the same j Judge Gil -on who remarked to Sheriff Mayo, of this County, at the last March! Term: “That whenever it would be made i his (the Sheriff’s) duty to summon negro i jurors, he (the Judge) would not want to sit on tlic l K'iieh any longer;’’ that this is the same Judge Gibson who, when about to come in contact with Gen. Pope’s negro Jury order at the close of the last Septem ber Term of Washington County Court, did shi t the responsibility of drawing a Jury, for the March Term, upon the In ferior Court, by requesting said Court not t> do the drawing until after the Ist of January. It is deplorable, indeed, to witness a mau occupying the exalted position Judge Gib s n does, to drag the judicial erinin ‘ in the mire of politics, and Radical polities at that. The negro vote certainly trust be much larger than that of the Irish and Dutch, when the Judge duds it necessary “to ere >k the pliant hinges of the knee, that thrift may follow fawning.” Dutch. Th* Coi.umuus Prisoners. —We un derstand thoA: gentlemen will be sent to Columbus to-day, under a sort of formal guard, where they will be turned over to the Commander of the Post—Captain Mills. They will, upou furnishing bouds in the sum of twenty thousand dollars each, be set at liberty. This !*>nd is in tended to secure their appearance should any charge be brought against them in the future. We doo’t know that we thank anybody for this act of grace, but we must congratulate the base sctuudrels by whom the cheat was instituted, upon their un fortunate failure. Who’ll gel the reward? — All'in la Jntclliymcer , 25rt. Terrible Tragedy. A serious and bloody difficulty occurred I in this city last night, the particulars of which we gather as follows : Las teveniDg, about nine o'clock, a party of gentlemen were in a restaurant on Jack son street, near the corner of Broad, when a gentleman drove up in a carriage and called somewhat loudly for his friends to come out and join him in a ride. A Police man standing near ordered the gentleman, in a very offensive tone and manner, not to make so much noise. This brought from the party a sharp retort, when the Policeman rapped for aid, and immediate ly Chief of Police Dillon and Evans, Po- | lioeman. with others, appeared upon the j scene of conflict. I Dillon, without inquiry into the cause of I the trouble, ordered Capt. Lewis Picquet to be arrested and taken to the Guard i House. A few sharp words ensued be- I tween the parties, when Capt. Alexander j-Philip interposed to prevent Picquet from being shot, Dillon presented his pistol to Philip’s left breast and fired, the ball entering a little to the left of the left nip ple, ranging across the body and making its exit a few inches to the right of the right nipple. Capt. Philip fell, when Evans, police man, fired two shots at him while down and then struck him a severe blow with his pistol on the head, giving him a severe cut on the scalp. The firing was rapid for some moments, and Cornelius Rod received two severe wounds, one of the balls passing through both legs, breaking and crushing the bone ß of one and completely disabling him. Another ball entered and passed through the lower abdomen. Red fell and exclaim ed “I am killed,” when Dillon ran up and fired upon him again while down and disabled. Dillon’s hall entered one side of his breast and, passing through the body, entered and crushed the bones of one arm. This is a mortal wound. It was reported that Evans was slightly hurt in the head, but could get nothing authentic on this point. All accounts agree that the difficulty was commenced by the Police without reason or just cause, and that they re sorted to the use of firearms before there was any necessity for such violence. From what we could learn from the by standers, Dillon and Evans, and especially the latter, are particularly to blame for this lamentable occurrence. The sworn conservators of the peace of the city and by law supposed to be the protectors of our citizens, they voluntarily and cause lessly instigated and in the most cowardly manner cousunimated this terrible tragedy. Dillon was shot in the melee, and dan gerously if uot mortally wounded. He received a severe contused wouud from a spent ball in the right side of the abdo men, and another ball entered his left side a little in front and, passing through the body, was lodged under the skin in the back a few inches to the right of the back hone. 11 is Surgeon does not think Ins wouud necessarily fatal. Captain Philip’s wound is serious and painful but not dangerous. The ball did not enter the cavity, but passed along un der the skin and muscles outside of the sternum. Mr. Red’s wounds are mortal and, at the timeof our going to press, he was reported as gradually sinking. He states that Dil lon shot him last while he was down and unable further to defend himself. This account is corroborated by several other witnesses of the bloody scone; This shameful and fatal tragedy is one of the legitimate results of Radical misrule. These l 'elieemen ate the pets and pimps of Bryant, Blodgett and Cos. —were elected by the Military Oounil of which Blodgett is the head, and selected on frlio ground alone of their Radical partisan ship. An efficient, active, honest and in telligent gentleman was displaced to make room for Dillon, who was and is confessed ly incompetent. There was great indignation in the breasts of our people last night, and some feared that they would avenge upon the authois of this bloody drama the foul in juries inflicted upon peaceful citizens. Capt. Picquet was arrested and confined in prison, while Evans was permitted to rauge the city at large and enjoy, with his scalawag friends, the fruits of his bloody rencontre. This is a fair sample of Radical justice and fairness. It must be borne in miml that these pretended officials have no authority now to act as policemen. If their appointment and subsequent acting as such were legal even under the Military Bills, they have ceased to he such since the order of Gen. Meade was issued directing all military ap pointees to cease their functions. Forewarned! Forearmed. We desire to call the attention ot our leading citizens and tax-payers to the fact that a plan is being concocted at Atlanta by Bullock, Blodgett, Conley and compa ny, whoreby the city government is to be turned over by Legislative enactment to the tender mercies of Bullock and his thieving gang. Confident as these fellows are that they cannot maintain their supremacy in the city government if the matter is left to the voters thereof, although there is a small majority of registered negro voters, they seek, by the passage of a bill by the Legislature, to place the whole power and patronage of the city government in the hands of Bullock. This is to be done somewhat after the fashion by which the Radical Legislature of New York took the coutrol of the affairs of New York city from the hands of the Democratic voters there, and placed the entire municipal power in the hands of commissioners appointed by the Legisla ture. We need not predict the ruin and dis tress and disgrace which would befall our beautiful city were the power of appointing ! the Police, Chief of Fire Department, 1 Street Commissioner and other city offi- j ciais, placed in the hands of Blodgett, Bul lock & Cos. Every man and woman in the | city knows that life, property and reputa- i tion would be unsafe in such hands, and . that the commercial prosperity of the place would receive a blow from which it would take long years to recover. Lot our merchants and other leading citizens take steps at once to defeat these nefarious projects of the Augusta ring. Let them send a committee of their best and most experienced men to Atlanta to lay before the members ot the Legislature the results which would follow this eontern ’■ plated legislation. No time, is to be lost in i regard to this matter. It will be too late, i perhaps, to act after Conley. Bullock and Blodgett have perfected their scheme, and i warped the minds of legislators. If any ' action is taken let it be done promptly and j before it is too late. The Sucking lKne--Torquemada Meade. These officers .General Meade and his suUmlmales have discharged their duty in a v ise, liberal, humane and kind mau ner. No mau can say to-day that he was wantonly oppressed—that he has suffered outrage at the hands of the military au thorities. — Sen: Era. The above extract from the Radical ne gro paper in Atlanta shows to what depths of infamy white men descend when they attempt to bolster up the military despotisms which the Jacobin Congress have fastened upon the people of the Southern States. To say that Torquemada Meade has ever shown, either by word or deed, the least evidence of kindness or even of naked justice toward the people of Georgia, is to deliberately falsify every’ official act aud word which has emanated from him during his reign over the State. Does not the Era mau know that the 1 Columbus prisoners Were "wantonly op pressed” and most vilely persecuted? ' Does he not know that young Cody, of I Warren county, was waDtonly oppressed and cruelly tortured by Torquemada Meade —arrested without warrant placed in ' irons without legal process—hurried to trial without time or opportunity to prepare for his defence— tried by an illegal tribunal far from the place where the alleged offence was committed—tortured and harassed during the pretended trial—confronted alone by witnesses raked up from the 1 vilest purlieus of the negro population of Warren ton—and, finally, after untold suf ferings and outrages, acquitted for want of the slightest evidence to convict? Is it not I openly and notoriously advertised now by a Radical negro paper that the murderer of the man, on account of whose killing Cody was thuAutraged, has been discovered— that he is a negro —and that this negro has not been arrested by Torquemada or any of his minions ? Can Cody say that ho has not been wantonly oppressed—-that he has not “suffered outrage at the hands of Meade and his subordinates ?” Is it not known throughout the land that Torquemada ordered the arrest and solitary confinement in a military dungeon, of four teen respectable white citizens of'Jefferson county, who were charged witli having assisted in lynching a buck negro who had outraged the person of a respectable and lovely young girl, the dauehter of OBe of the bestcitizens Os Jefferson county, and who confessed the commission of the ’hell ish deed and boasted it was not the first of a similar character? Is it not known that Meade's military arrest was made some months after the tragedy was committed, and long after all the parties implicated had given bond with heavy security to ap pear at the next succeeding term of the Superior Court,to answer according to law for whatever offence had been committed? Is it not also known that after keeping those citizens in filthy dungeons for several weeks they were discharged without trial and sent back to Jefferson for trial by the civil courts ? But, worse than all, is it not known that only .the white people who were charged with complicity in the lynch ing were arrested, when it was notorious that a large number of negroes were present aiding and assisting in the terrible tragedy, not one of whom were ever arrest ed by the military ? Is it not known that about the time young Cody was arrested by order of Meade for the alleged shooting of a Federal soldier in Warrenton, a most cowardly and brutal attack was made upon a Feder al soldier in this city by an infuriated negro, who inflicted ghastly and horrible wounds with a razor on the unoffending soldier, and that to this day no military arrest or notice whatever has been taken of this brutal deed f Is it not true that the civil authorities issued warrants for the arrest of this felon, and that but for them he would now be at large and unmolested ? Is it not true that when the brute Hop kins, of Savannah (since killed by Rus sell), was arrested by the civil authorities of that eity by a legal warrant issued upon a lawful affidavit, charging him with hav ing in cold blood murdered a colored girl, the too eoufiding victim of his lust, that he was forcibly taken from the possession and control of the oourts, aod ordered to be tried by a military tribunal which was never convened , and this on the ostensible ground that he could not got justice from the hands of'a jury of his own race when he was charged with killing a negress. Is it not true that after the exposure of the subornation of the perjured witnesses fixed up by Whitley and Joe Brown for the conviction of the Columbus prisoners, they were sent away under military escort to prevent their being legally punished for the diabolical attempt to swear away the lives of innocent men ? . Do all these and hundreds of other like transactions of Meade and his minions show that they “have discharged their duty in a wise, liberal, humane, and kind manner ?” Let the free voice of a deeply injured and grossly outraged people an. swer. Let these facts bo presenlcd to the in telligent mind of the North, and let the people there auswer whether Meade has not far surpassed, in diabolical cruelty and ingenious torture, his great model and prototype of the 15th century. Relief Tor Thieves, Scalawags anil Car pet-Daggers. “Tn view of the great poverty of curpoo pleand of tlio present effect of setting apart ! Homesteads, the Executive might, with j the assistance of the Treasurer and Comp- I trotter, be authorized to exercise a discre- I tion as t.o the kind and character of bond I to bo given by persons elected to county offices to the end that, if for the above reasons, the officer elect may not be able ! to secure the character of bond heretofore 1 required, the choice of the people shall not i be denied the exercise of the duties of his office.” — Bullock's Message. Bullock has shown in his first abortive attempt at writing a State paper at least one excellence heretofore esteemed very highly by thieves and highwaymen—he in sists upon taking care of, and promoting the interests of his Scalawag clan, even though it should have to be done at the risk of having the taxes wrung from the impoverished people of the State, stolen and squandered by the incompetent and, in many instances, dishonest officials placed in power by the negro and scalawag vote. £ In very many counties, Sheriffs, Ordina- i ries, Tax Receivers and Collectors have been elected who cannot give bond for the faithful performance of their respective ’duties in any secure or satisfactory amount. The Express agent is ful- j ly alive to this fact, and hence his 1 commendation is not that official Bonds j should be reduced 10,20, 30, 50 or 80 per cent., hut that the whole matter shall be left with the discretion of the Executive, assisted by the Treasurer and Comptroller. Not only does he propose that he shall be permitted to fix the amount of the bond, but he asks to be invested with the right to decide upon the character of the bond and the ability of the bondsman to respond for any loss*s which may be sustained. This shameless attempt to take control of all the offices in the State is justified cn the ground of the poverty of our people and the effect of the large homestead exemption fixed by the negro constitution. The people of the were urged to vote for the ratification of the constitution because it secured to the heads of families a large homestead exemption, and now the Legis lature is solicited to give the Express Agent the power to fill commissions and install im portant public functionaries in power with | out bonds, because by the effect of the ! homestead provisions scalawags ate not I able to give satisfactory security for the ; faithful execution of their trusts. But this is not all. If the partisans of the “Agent” in the so-called Legislature \ should dothe him with the power he asks for is it not apparent to the most careless j observer that he will use this discretion in I such a way as to permit ail the ignorant, i incompetent and dishonest of his own i party to exercise the functions of their offices without bonds—or at best with straw bonds, while every competent Democratic official will be required to give exorbitant and extraordinary security. This is the object—the prime moving i cause of this silly and dishonest recom -1 mendation. Let us see if there is-even plausibility in the pretext that the impoverished con dition of the people render the bonds heretolore required by law too heavy and oppressive. The most important of these State officials, as fax as the mere question of dollars and cents is concerned, are the several tax-receivers and collectors in the different counties. We admit that it would hardly-be fair to require of these officials the same amount of Bond as was required when the tax payers were more wealthy and the amount of Taxes assessed and collected much lar ger than is now brought into the public treasury. But the Law as it now stands ami as it hat existed for several years pro vides expressly for this fluctuation in the amount of Taxes tg be raised and regulates the Tax Receivers and Collectors' Bonds, in proportion to the amount of Taxes to be collectedfor each year. Section 842 of the Code, provides tha the Tax Receivers and Collectors “shall “give Bonii and Security in double the { “amount ot the Taxes due the State in ; “their County, taking the Tax of the pre [ “vionsyearas a,*basis,subject to be increased “or diminished according to the rate pert “cent of taxation and the directions of the “Comptroller General.” Now it* the im poverishment of our people has. been as great as fifty per cent of their previous wealth, it will be seen that the tax is re duced in the same proportion and that the Receiver and Collectors’ Bonds are by law reduced also one-half. The truth is, as we have just hinted, Bullock finds that nearly or quite all of the scalawags and negroes elected to fill offices under the so-called State Government are so destitute'of character, position, virtue and hoDestv as to be utterly unable to give hpnds for any amount for the honest per formance of their official duties, and hence lie asks the Legislature to clothe him with the extraordinary power of deciding whether these men who do not have the con fidence and support of their own friends and acquaintances, shall held these impor tant offices without the least check or security for their good behavior and honest discharge of duty. The “agent” knows that the men elected to the offices of Sheriff, County Treasurer, Tax-Collector and Tax-Receiver in Richmond county cannot give bond in' one-tenth of the amount which is now required by law for the security of the tax-payer. For the pur pose of rewarding these poor wretches, who have sold themselves to Bullock and his Radical crew, they were elected to offices which every honest man in the county,black and white, knew they were incompetent to fill, and now the so-called Governor confesses this much by asking the Legislature to permit him to have them installed into office without bond or security. We cannot believe that the Legislature, Radical though it is said to be, will lend themselves to such an unblushing attempt to rob and plunder the impoverished and overburdened people of the State. If the unprincipled and characterless Radical crew, who have been in many counties elected by the artful contrivances of the capet-baggers and scalawags, cannot give sufficient bonds to secure the protection of the public interests, let another election be held and honest, competent men select ed to fill their places. Is this one of the “Agent’s” recommen dations which the Macon Telegraph thinks “sensible and judicious?” FKOII ATLANTA. [SPECIAL CORnE3PuNDENCE of t;lz chronicle a sentinel. Uprising of the Masses —The Skies Bright ening— The Senatorial Contest—Radical and Democratic Caucuses—Brown and Blodgett— How they were Nominated — The Radioed Slate —Democratic Can didates, etc. Atlanta, July 27,1868. Messrs. Editors: —The events of the last few days at this great centre of attrac tion, so far as Georgia politics arc concern ed, are a part of the history of tho times. So gCberal have the outside political events been chronicled Jay tho press that they have been “known and read of all men.” It does the patriot’s heart good to see the upheaving and uprising of the masses. The wool'hat boys, not the wOolly heads, have taken counsel together, and “do or die” is the watchword. Never, since the days - “lang syne,” has there been suehau upheaving, such a spontaneous outburst of honest indignation against the wicked and infamous plotters against the integrity of the Government. “There is life in the old land yet;” “there is balm in Gilead, there is a physician there”—that halm is Democracy—that pbysicianis Horatio Sey mour. The political cauldron still seethes and boils —the Senatorial prize still beckons on all minor appointments and offices sink into insignificance, or are only spoken of as adjuncts to the great Senatorial contest. Tlie Radicals have led out their horses, and invite to the contest. Last night, or rather yesterday afternoon, both parties held caucuses. The Democrats failed to arrive at a conclusion. Not so the Rads— Bullock and Brown met them in caucus, Blodgett was also there. The schedule was written out beforehand, and must be ! run, notwithstanding other trains were on the track. N o signal flag was displayed at the masthead of the fast time train, and, though some feeble efforts were made, yet the schedule was run, small obstacles were ignored, and the lesser trains were unceremoniously run off the I track. In the caucus there were present eighty-one Radicals, sixty of whom voted for Brown, as one candidate; and your Captain and quondam Postmaster was barely nominated. Nevertheless he was. Lt took, though, all the tact of Brown and Bullock to bring the Rads to his support. The negro members seem to be the espe cial friends of Blodgett, and “may be” will vote for Brown if Brown’s friends wil I vote for Blodgett. Governor Brown seems to have a due appreciation of the situation, for his attention to this element in the Legislature is assiduous, obsequious aud persistent. In the same caucus, of which I have spoken above, Hon. A. 11. Stephens receiv ed sms votes. One of the men who voted for him said that he and five others who voted for Stephens would never vote for Brown and Blodget?— that he should dodge or vote for Mr. Stephens when the election came on. Messrs. Seward, Hill, Hopkins and Andrews are still here, and someone or more of their names will be vo ted for when the time comes. Certain it is. there are from twenty-five to forty Radi - cals *who will not support Brown and Blodgett. Their absence from the caucus pjainly indicates this. The same caucus nominated Angier for State Treasurer ; Cotting for Secretary of State, and Bell, of Banks,' f'or Comptroller General. Nothing was said by them as to Surveyor General. It seems to be a foregone conclusion that the offices of Surveyor General and Secretary of State will be consolidated. The Demo i crats have not yet settled on any candi i date for U. S. Senator. It is generally | thought that if they will compromise and take Seward or Hill, the disaffected Rads would unite with them and be satisfied ; to vote for any Democrat that may be i agreed upon. Negotiations looking to an arrangement of this kind have been ten i dered, but no signs would indicate the j adoption of such a policy. Hon. \\ m. I Dougherty, Dr. Miller, Gen. W offord, and i Col. Calhoun, of this city, arc spoken of by l the Democrats as probable candidates. I i mean these, of course, in addition to the I names heretofore spoken of. We are now in the 23d day ol the ses ; sion, and nothing has been done. This is | not fairly chargeable to the members, who i are willing enough to go to work and traos- I act the business of the country, but such extraordinary hindrances have never ffeset i any Legislature. Some fifteen or eighteen t bills have been introduced into the two j Houses, ail of which have been read a I second time. If the two Houses do not j hasten up. there will be no end of this ses sion till frost. The daily expenses of run- I nine the Legislative machine is about | $2,500. _ . In the House, yesterday, it was virtually settled that members are to have $0 per diem. This may or may not be extrava gant. One thing is certain, every negro member was either “present (and voting for this per diem) or accounted tor. j We had a heavy rain yesterday, and all day long at short intervals the “'clouds | have been dropping their garnered tallness I down.” Constitution. The Columbus prisoners went to their homes on fast Saturday morning. Ihe order is tor them to be sent to Capt. Mills at that place, who will take a bond of $2,000 for their appearance before the Supreme Court to answer such charges as may be brought against them. An attempt was made Thursday night, in New York, to assassinate Police officer Irving by stabbing. Oq the 15th an attempt was made to assassinate Mr. Sliields, a respected fann er, living near Seymour, Ind. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1868 THE ATLANTA MASS MEETING. SPEECH OF HO 'I. B. H. HILL. REPOSTED FOB TILE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. When General Cobb had concluded his address, several bands of music struck up various popular airs, in different parts of the arbor, improvised for the accommoda tion of the audience. The Hon. B. 11. Hill then came forward and said: Mr. President and fellow-citi zens—l especially requfest entire quiet while I attempt to address you to-day. In addition to the fact that I have to follow two gentlemen who have no superiors on this continent, I am, Unfortunately, labor ing under considerable physical disability, the extent of which is not even known to myself. * I greet you to-day, my countrymen, with a joy and gladness that no language can express. ; One year ago I came, in my humble way, I to this same city, to speak to 'the people i what I believe to be words of truth and i soberness. There has been quite a change I since then. On that occasion I met, iu a quiet, retired room, some half dozen gen tlemen, who had made up their minds to brave tfie storm that was coming upon us at all hazards. That little band of half a dozen in that private room has swelled to day to thousands of freemen, in the open air of this once more to be redeemed coun try. I must confess that the history of the past year is one to me full of cheer and rejoicing. 1 may differ with most of you, but I fed * that J during the past twelve months the white race of the Southern States has done more to manifest heroism, endurance and cour age than any other people had ever mani fested on a hundred battle-fields. [Cheers.] It is not uncommon for a people to lose their property; it is nothing new in the history of nations’for a people to be defeat ed in battle; it is not oven altogether new, unfortunately, that a people should lose their cities and bury their dead, that they should be cowed in their spirits, and should be made almost hopeless of the future. Rut there is something else which is pos sessed by every people far more valuable than property, far-more to be desired than cities, far more to be coveted than the vic tories of war, and that thing you s(till pos sess, notwithstanding your enemies sought to destroy it —1 mean yotir honor as a people. There were two propositions made to you, which I would briefly state, so that you can see clearly what I mean: The first proposition which afiected your honor was, that a Congress in which you were not represented—a band of foreigners, not one of whom hns ever lived or expects to live upon your soil—nay, men who have avowed that they hate you, claimed the right to destroy the government you had formed, and to dictate to you the formation of anew government. This was done, too, right in the teeth of the Declaration of Independence, which says that all government derives its au thority from the consent of the governed. You are asked to forfeit your honor be cause a band of foreigners—men among whom you had no representatives— among whom you were denied representa tion who confess their Rate of you— these men claimed the right to destroy the government which you had formed, and to dictate the formation of another in its stead. None but slaves would haVo ac ceded to such a donjand, and none could have been other than slaves who would consent to it. The second reason why your honor, as a people, was so seriously involved, is this : That in the formation of the new govern ment which this foreign power dictated it was prescribed, as a necessary condition, that the intelligent and virtuous of your people—those whom you had all your life deemed worthy of tjre highest trust— should be forbidden to participate, while those who had been your slaves should be at liberty, without discrimination, to participate. You were to form a Govern ment, under the dictation and by the direction of a foreign power, and you, in the formation of the govern ment, were to be deprived of the services of the intelligence and virtue of your country, simply because you had trusted them, and you had to submit to tho gov ernment being formed by those who had rooently been your slaves, ignorant and de based as they were. You will remember now that these are the - reasons why your honor was involved. The base Congress— the uuprecedentedly'traitorous Congress who got 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 suspicion of the dishonor of their scheme, and therefore provided a plan by which the infamy should seem to spring from your own con sent. Well, I confess truly, that when I looked at the picture; when I saw the is sue and remembered that no people had ever grown great who suffered tlieir honor to be sullied—no people had recovered from misfortune who had yielded their honor to the enemy—when I remembered all these things and saw the condition of our people, saw all the dangers that sur rounded them and the power that dictated these terms, Oh God, thou and thou only, knowest the anxiety of my spirit! When the smoke of our burning cities went up to heaven, and our brave men fell in battle I was grieved exceedingly; but when a whole people—millions of freemen— were asked— by power to sacrifice their honor at the bidding of hate, and there were found those who whispered that the sacrifice would be made, my heart did sink within me ; and when I remember now the means and ap pliances brought to bear to compel you to yield, I do rejoice in knowing that you refused [cheers], I have had only one point to accomplish in this struggle ; some have troubled themselves 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 l care nothing ; the great and only point which I had ever felt 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 be declared successful; I knew that, right or wrong, they would say that the elections were carried.' They came for 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 that it could be read by all men, now and forever, that the white people of the South refused to give their consent to this iniquity. [Cheers.] That is why I wrote and spoke ; that is why I despised the in famous and defied the powerful. Still, fel low citizens, it was a time to fear. If I doubted and trembled on that occasion do not blame me; if I feared you would not be equal to the great crisis, don't chide me. Remember the powerful influence brought to bear. The Congress claimed to be all ‘ powerful, and they avowed their purpose • qf carrying out this infamy, and if you did not aftcept it, of making you accept a worse. First of all these in oarying out that plan, they sent the military here ; they sent an army of bayonets to make’ war upon a helpless people as another means of ac complishing this infamy and securing the form of your consent; they came to some of your own public men—natives of Geor gia and of the South—men whom you had honored of old, and they bought them upasco-adjutorsin the work. [Cries of Joe Brown.] No, I don’t allude to that man. I tell you, my friends, his name forms a sub ject that is becoming too vulgar for refer ence in decent company. [Cheers and laugh ter, and cries of “that so.”] I speak of a i class, and I affirm fearlessly, and I want the people of the country to know it, that there was not a single Southern public I man wh'o advocated the acceptance of this Reconstruction scheme who was not i bought, and bought with a price by your ; enemies. [Cheers]. The price has partially been paid, and you are to pay the balance. [Laughter.] What arguments did they use ? Did they appeal to your pride, your honor or your interests? Not at all. They came among you and travelled from the seaboard to the moun tains, and they told an impoverished people “It you don't accept this infamy the little property that you have left shall be confis cated, and every man of you shall be disfranchised !” Congress, claiming to be all-powerful, installed an army iu your midst, and found citizans ready and willing to urge, to persuade, to intimidate and to threaten a starving and almost helpless ; people. Oh, my countrymen, proud as I know Southern blood to be, don't chide me if in this dark hour, I felt uneasy. I confess that I did. I watched the first election — the election for the Convention—with tense interest. I happened to be in New York city when the first election in the South came off, and I shall neve» forget ffiow my hopes were lifted and my desires 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 anxiously for the second day, thinking that perhaps the “superior race” hajJ crowded in, an< l the whites were, on that account, unable to get to the polls. [Laughter. J Thesecond i day came, and brought the news that the whites had, almost to a man, remained away from the polls—only a few carpet-baggers and office-seekers voting, thus the elections went on to the last. I tell you, fellow-citizens, I moved among the inhabitants of the great com mercial 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 the people of the South would endorse this measure, and they have had nothing to do with it. Why, added he,“your people are more honorable than we gave them credit for.” Well, the power with the bayonet said that a Con vention was ordered. All knew, however, that it was ordered 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 thenegroes. ILaughter.J I affirm to day another great fact, which I want to be re membered, and which, whenever the occa sion may demand,l stand prepared to sup port : The Convention in Georgia was defeated by thirty thousand votes! [Wild cheering.] Ah, my friends, there is noth ing like it in history ! You were poor, you were betrayed, tempted, threatened— you were told that every man that did’nt vote for the Convention, must have his little remaing property confiscated, besides being disfranchised, and that the list of voters was to be used to ascertain who you were. Miserable threat 1 Proud people—noble people! The verdict you gave was that, though many of our gallant spirits were sleeping under the sod, there was heroism still left in the South. [Enthusiastic cheers. ] Well, the false convention as sembled and a thing called a constitution was framed. It haa to be ratified, and a Governor and officers had to he chosen, and what was the appeal then ? Os course, if the Southern white people approved the constitution, this dishonor was complete. Tly;y had exhausted appeals to your fears —you could not be frightened from your Honor—and the next thing was to buy you up. So they put in the Constitution something called relief. The few men in the South (who, unfortunately, were South ern men from accident or other cause) who had sold themselves to engage iu this work, being entirely conscious that they were bought up for the purpose, thought, of course, that the same means would answer for 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 notify you that this promise was put in the new Con stitution for no other purpose than to cheat you, and that the rogues and hyprocrites who put it in, did so with the distinct knowledge that it would be stricken out after the election. They used it well. They bid high. The question was this: how many men in Georgia are willing to confess themselves no better than negroes if they could thereby get rid of their debts ? how many ot you would be willing to bo ne groes, if by being negroes you could be excused from paying your debts? Well, I came to this city in March to inaugurate the fight on that question, and some of 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 say any thing against the Constitution; everybody is going to vote for it, everybody was going to be sold.” It was a great wound to inflict upon me. I was struggling for nothing on this earth but to preserve the honor of the people of Georgia, and, know ing that they could not be frightened, I hoped they could not be bought. We made the fight and let tho whole world know it, the white people of Georgia, by an overwhelming majority, refused to be bought. Some few men, I apprehend, are about in the category of the poor negroes who voted for a Convention to get “forty acres and a mule.” Ah, you poor victims of a wily hypocricy; of men to whom God gave a white skin by mistake. [Laughter.] You who went upon the public block, be fore your countrymen and the world, and publicly proclaimed that you were willing to be a negro, if, by being a negro, you could be excused from paying your debts, how do you feci to-day, after agreeing to be ainegro and having to pay your debts, too? [Laughter.] My friends, General Cobb made a re quest of the military ; I shan't make any—pever intended to; but I ad vise 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 record. The great majority of the white people spurned the bribe and de spised the bribers, and let it be forever re membered, to your pride and honor, that the people of Georgia, under the throat of the bayonet, with the temptations of treachery all round and in the very ashes of their poverty, have said to all mankind: “We can neither be frightened nor bought from our honor.” [Great Cheering.] I have said" the Military declared a Convention had been ordered, when there was thirty thousand majority against it. They also declared that Gordon was de feated, and that the Radical party had succeeded, when, in truth, Gordon was elected by nearly ten thousand vores. [Tremendous Cheers.] I say that it is so, counting the correctly registered votebs 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 ic. We won two victories, and we won them against the bayonet, against force, against fraud, against treachery and against the negroes. The white people of this country are not goin#to consent to this thing; they never have and never will. If the lladicals have been unable thus far to get the consent of the white people to this scheme of infamy will they be able to do it hereafter ? How can they ? They have appealed to your fears and your avarice and taken advantage of your poverty, but they have been disap pointed ; they have failed in their schemes Wind I tell you that there is no argument or appliance which they can use in the future more powerful than these they have used in the past. Any people who can with stand such appliances of force and pressure as have been brought to bear upon you within the past twelve months, can never be seduced or driven from their honor. I am proud of Georgia, and J pray that when God takes me hence my bones may be laid iu her honored old soil. [A voice, , “you’ll go to Heaven.”] My friends, I wish to pass now to another subject. The issue hassoipewhat changed. I have told you what the is-ue has been the last twelve months, and I wish to state 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,they were not going to be Radicals, they were not going to consent to negro government, but they said “let us seem togointo this thing, let us get back into the Union, and then we’ll turn it all over, and do as we please.” That was an argument based upon # treach ery. They had betrayed you, and they were justifying their treachery to you by proving that they were going to betray the Radicals. That suggestion deceived a great many people for a time. For myeelf, I had nothing to do with it, because I could not consent to join traitors. I don’t be lieve in treachery—no people ever saved themselves by it. Where the honor of a people is involved they cannot swerve from principle for the sake of policy. The only line of honor is a direct one. But what is the,result ? Those manipulators at ’Wash ington who bought these Southern men had more sense than the men they bought. They were not going to be caught in any such trap as that, and in this respect my prophecy has turned out to be correct. The issue mow, then, is this : I Shall this infamy which has been thrust upon the people of Georgia and of the other Southern States, be valid and per petual? That is the first point to which I wbh to direct your attention. In order that it may be perpetual, the Chicago platform says that the rights of the North ern States to regulate the franchise and to change and modify their own Constitutions ' shall not be infringed, but the Southern people shall not have the right to change their Constitutions at will. Now, if any thing in American history never was dis puted before it is this, that the States were members of the Union on an equal footine: and there is no man, from George Wash- I ington down, whether high or low, wise or j | simple, black or white, who ever had any ! 1 idea that the Union formed by the States j was a Union of unequal States; it was al- j ways admitted that the States were equal > ; and each retained control of the franchise. ! I state a mere fact and history; since the 1 | acknowledgement of our independence we ! have added twenty-four new States to the j j Union, and in every act admitting a State j i as a member of this Union, it is distinctly stated that she is admitted on an equal footing with all the other States. But ! this Chicago Convention, with the Georgia ! Radicals in it, for the first time in Ameri | can his'ory makes the declaration that the Union shall be a Union of unequal States, j ; I want you all to remember that point. It is the great aim of the Radicals. Where «reyou now, my good Union-men? You 1 that wanted to get back into the Union and were willing to sacrifice everything for ; ! the accomplishment of that object; you j 1 that congratulated the country upon being i again “in the Union?” [A voice “none.”] It is a Uuion in which the Southern States are vassals and the Northern States rulers. I want you to hear it and to remember it. That is mere sheer naked disuhion in the most odious and traitorous form in which the word was ever spoken. [GreatCheers.] 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—(l knew the poor fellow did not know much.) I read, I say, in the papers that this stupid Express Agent, in the presence and under the protection offeree and treachery, went, yesterday, through the farce of being in augurated a miserable sham Governor of Georgia. Why, every word he uttered shows he does not, this day, know tho difference between a restored Union of equal States and a constructed new Union ot unequal States. Take that fact down : pencil it carefully and take it to your hearts. If I cart teach you to take home, with you that single sentence, you will not have come here to-day in vain. There never was,in the history of any people, such a bold, plain, palpable, universally admit ted cause of war as that simple statement in that Chicago platform. And yet that is not all. You, gentle men,who think you are members ofa Legis lature—poor, deluded souls, howl pity you! you who come here and go through the foun of passing laws, I want you to hear one thing. Not only is that doctrine of unequal States in the Chicago platform, but it is in what you cal! your Omnibus Admission Bill. That bill prescribes the manner in which you shall go back, and every ono-ef-you who voted the other day to get back, as you say, into the Union, agreed to the doctrine that Georgia shall never have the right to do what Ohio can do; that the Southern States shall never have the right to do what the Northern States can do. You agreed to remain for ever an unequal member of the Union. You agreed that you would get back into the Uuion by consenting that Georgia shall never have the power to modify or to chango her own State constitution, as to her own domestic affairs according to her own will and pleasure. [A voice] “They didn’t know any better.”] Ah, you rene gades—you rogues—who tried to steal your neighbors’ property and could not do it. Ah, ye men that adopted the Recon struction 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, and 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 you rock them in their cradles and in the nur sery ditties, by which you send them to sleep—tell them that men—white mon Georgians—some of them “to the manor born”—have come upon this classical old hill. and have deliberately put upon record their solemn consent that the proud old State of Georgia goes 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 of being gen tlemen. You have buried the sovereignty of your State; you have sullied the char acter 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 fur a few hot days in summer. [Cheers ] That is the Union we have—a Union of unequal States. Ye cowardly, base, disumonists of the vilest type, you disgrace 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 equality among the races as a condition of getting back into the Union, and you have agreed that that shall never be changed, but you arc so given to lying that you could not, tell the truth even whgn you thought it was to your interest to do it. [Laughter. ] You say in your record that you have agreed to an equality of the races when you know, you vile hypocrites,that the ver agreement you make includes the disfran chisement of 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 scalawag or negro may. Is that equality ? [Several cries of “no.” j If a negro has a right to vote and hold office why not these men whom you have always trusted ? Oh, you _ whited sepulchres—ye who are de grading the poor negro by your example of fraud and treachery. Ye vile renegades from every law of God and every right of humanity, you are deceiving the unfortu nate negro to his ruin. [A voice “that’s what’s the matter.”] If the negroes ever get a permanent right to vote in this country it must be by the c msent of the people that live here. If the negroes, when this infamous proposition was made to them by more infamous white men to disfranchise the white people, had come out and said publicly and openly, “We are willing to accept the franchise; if there is any benefit in political equality we want it, but we will never consent to disfranchise 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 the franchise. [A voice “some of them did it.”] Yes, arid those that did it must for ever be remembered. You Radicals of the Legislature have agreed to degrade your own State and people, and you have agreed that that degradation shall 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 all you vaga bonds stand. Where do we stand ? Where do Seymour and Blair stand ? Upon the glorious ancestral doctrine that the States are equal, and that white blood is superior. [Loud applause. ] Now choose ye which you will vote for. Some of you got seared last fall for fear of losing your property by confiscation, others of you were afraid of being disfranchised, and others still were bought this spring with relief. Where is 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 your wife to put on you a clean shirt [laugh ter and cheers], takcagood wash with soap and warm water, and then come back and befreeand decent white men Come to,our side of the question. We will try to for give you, but you must come quick. I admit that there are some of you I would be very sorry to see conic, for the reSsoo that I know our party would be botrayed very soon ! Still you who didn’t know any better, you who wfere sold, if you will clean up and get on a clean shirt, we will take- you back. [Cheers and laughter.] How many wdite men in Geor gia are going to say by their vote that Georgia is 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 Wash ington, and has furnished more Presidents to this country than any other State, shall not be the equal of Kansas ! I. want to know how many men in Georgia are willing to say that proud old Virginia shall never be the equal of Kansas. I want to know, too, how many white men in Georgia are willing to put upon the record, that pauper ism shall fix the burdens for property, and ignorance and vice shall prescribe the law for intelligence and virtue ? Take this concern up here—take the Radical wing of it and tell me how much property in this State they possess. [A voice “Joe Brown has a good lot of it but 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. jChcers and laughter.] I repeat how much property do the Radical members of this thing that imagined itself a Legislature represent? [A voice “eight dollars a day.”] Yes, but it does not rep resent taxable property enough to pay their per diem. And these meu are to make laws to tax disfranchised property holders in this enlightened nineteenth century aod in this Christian country. Shame! Shame ! Is there a member of the Legislature who hears me to-day ? Ah,to your shame be it said, more than a hundred of yoy have so recorded j our Dames. Go,my friends, and take it back, fori charge you this day, in this bright sun and in this centra! city of Georgia, that if that record remains as you have made it, whereby you have cove nanted and agreed that these Southern States shall he unequal members of this Union and that the intelligent men of this country shall be disfranchised and deprived of their right to hold ofcfiee.and that pau perism shall fix the burden of taxation,and vice and ignoranoe make laws for intelli gence and virtue, you will go down to posterity so infamous that when a legiti mate Legislature shall have assembled some unfortunate creatures who may be compelled by Providence to call you fath er, will apply to the Legislature to have their names changed. I understand some of you that voted for that 14th Article, and voted to ex punge rebel' call yourselves. Democrats. You are vain .deluded creatures if you think that the Democratic door will be ever open to receive you with such a same. NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. NO. 31. Such a vote is directly against the Demo cratic platform, and directly for the Radical platform, and must be repented of and changed. Are these, then, the terms of the new Union ? terms of negro dominion, of pauperism in power and ignorance in leg islating. I say such terms will never succeed. The white people have refused to conseht to them, and I tell you that they will not consent to them, and you can never estab lish any government permanently in this country against the consent of the white people. The Supreme Court of the United States made up their minds that the re construction measures wero unconstitution al and void, but they were too cowardly to declare the decision. This is j a melancholy fact, that the Suprome Ju- ! diciary of this country should have given | way so cowardly. But it will not always j be thus—it cannot for ever refuse to pro- J uoance its decision. It is true, a Radical Congress has taken away jurisdiction in the McArdle case, but we shall have anoth- ] er case. A gentleman, who isthe only real 1 Governor of Georgia, is making a case in ; which jurisdiction is given by the Consti- j tution. [Cries of three cheers for Jenkins, given by the whole audience.] Yes, when ! I mention him, I mention a man who, in | any age or nation, is worthy to be a Gov- ; ernor ! I tell you, then, you who trade in j the respectability of your race —you who : are vendors of your people’s honor —I toll j you to-day that this very Court will pro- j nounce these acts unconstitutional and ' void and everything done under them un- ! constitutional and void. But we have a party now organized, a strong and a glorious party, with states men at its head and with correct principles for its platform. From Maine to Califor nia the glorious tramp of the Democracy is growing more and more distinct, and by November a verdict will be pronounced by the great freemen of America that shall gladden the hearts of patriots now and forever. [Cheers.] And when the people shail have pronounced that verdict the Court will take courage and pronounce their judgment. Then—ah then, what will become of you, yo isolated hypocrites; all power to threaten gone, treachery ex hausted, Relief measures and Reconstruc tion 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 ! what will become of j ou? “Ye generation of vipers, how will you escape the damnation of hell?” That’s what is coming. Oh, it’s coming; th; ik God, it’s coming—coming to the cheer of patriots, and the dismay of traitors. Yes,-1 tell you victory is coming. We have suffered and suffered much; our comrades are sleeping. Ah, sleeping! many of them by the streams and in the valleys of Geor gia. They are sleeping on the banks of the deep rolling Mississippi; they are sleeping all over Virginia, grander than the pyra mids of Egypt and richer than the mines of India. [Enthusiastic cheers.] Spirit of our departed braves, we are not dishorn ored yet! and though the vile, the low, the corrupt and the perjured are seeking to be our rulers, and have seized upon our high places, the noble, the valiant and the true are still left to us, and through all our borders arc taking courage and hymn ing the notes of coming triumph. Ye miserable spawns of political accideney, hatched by the putrid growth of revolu tionary corruption into an ephemeral ex istence—renegades from evory law of God and violators of every right of man—tye serve you with notice this day, that this victory is coming. Tho men of the South and the men of the North—patriots every where—are sending up their vows to heaven that this is and shall forever be a Union of equal States, and never a hateful Union of unequal States- [Wild cheers, lasting several minutes.] Men of pride, men of character, women—thank Ged—without a dissenting voice, and even children in their play-gr.ounds, are pro claiming on hill top and in valjey that those wfioni God made superior shall not be degraded to the dominion of the infe rior. A few more words and I will close. If; as I now hope and believe, we shall again have liberty and law under the Constitu tion, what shall be done wijh those who have taken advantage of these corrupt times to insult innocence, trample upon rights, and oppress helplessness'?. These criminals will be among us, and must he assigned appropriate positions. What shall we do with them ? Ye who have travailed through the blood and losses and sorrows of war for asserting nothing but what the very framers of the Constitution taught was your right; ye who have been taunted and reviled as rebels and traitors; yc who have been disfranchished in thelanu ofyoar fathers and made exiles iu the homo of your birth; when this victory shall corno and we shall once more be free men arid 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 deprive them of no right. Give them over—oh, give over the miscreants to the inextinguishable hell of their own consciousness of infamy. Rut solne things you must do for the protection of your children and of yourselves, and for the vindication of your honor. I affirm it and I want it heard. It is going to be the law of this country and a law more irrepoalable than the laws of the Medos and Persians. Not one man that dares reoord his vote for the inequality and vassalage of the South ern States and the degradation of his own race, ought ever to be received into a decent family in Georgia or in the South now or hereafter. [Cries of ‘ ‘never. ’’ ] And this rule we can make now. If we have not the power to help make the laws for our Government or for society, thunk God we can at least pass social laws for our own homes. I charge you this day, as you honor your children and your household, and would preserve your good name for your posterity, never suffer a single native renegade who votes for the vassalage 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,” “hurrah.”] You condemn the poor vic tim to the Penitentiary who steals a horse or a hundred dollarg, and yet these mis erable creatures have sought to* bargain away everything that you have ;or can value. You sooni the criminal who has violated the peual laws of your country. These miserable renegades are faithless to every law of Heaven and of earth, and have used overy means to sell you to those who hate you, and to place your lives and your all in the power of the ignorant and de based. Another thing I insist shall be done: A people who will not reseat such foul innovations of thoir right are Dot worthy' of freedom. [A voice “true. ”,1 i’ou have been helpless—your great men have been silenced; you surrendered your arms to what you thought was a gallant foe ; you 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 pov erty and helplessness, and of the presence of the bayonet; they have invaded yonr households, they have stolen your prop erty ; they have robbed you of your goods; they have joined the negro and the stranger to tax, insult and oppress you; and they have, contrary to the laws of the 1 land, forced into dungeons and before military commissions the proud freemen of this country. You have been powerless to prevent these things. But my vow is recorded, and I shall redeem it if I find the people willing to sns tain me. Men who have trampled upon the rights of the citizens of Georgia at a time when the laws were paraliaed shall feel the power of that restored law when liberty is reawaked. Ye vile miscre ants of the Convention, who stole the money of the State to pay youryxr diem , 1 give you notice that you shall pay it back. And there is a good legal principle here which I want you to remember, and that is that where a number of men hand them selves together for the commission of a common purpose, each one is responsible for what all the others do or get. [Tre mendous cheering, j And, therefore, every man who took a portion of that stolen money is liable for every oept that negroes and carpet-baggers received, and we are going to make them pay it. Ye constitu tion makers, ye men that sprung at one bound from the penitentiaries of the country to frame constitutions for honest people, ye men who oscillate from grand jury rooms with charges of perjury upon you up to legislative halls and other high places in the land, I serve you with notice to day that the money shall he repaid with interest. Aud you who are depriving the peopleofliborty, threatening and conspir ing against their lives—(hold mo responsible for what I say)— J tell you that the day is coming when the Judges shall be in the prisoners' box and the persecutors shall be clamoring for mercy. “Thou shaft not take the life or liberty 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 com mandments hang. It was given as a con cession from power to the people more than six hundredyears ago at the political Horeb of Anglo Saxon history, and no man from that day has violated or disregarded it who was not a tyrant or a traitor, or both. [Great cheers. | No man in English his- I tory ever trampled upon those sacred | rights without being called to account. t Wicked men have the power now; they 1 have bayonets to protect them, aud they feel ; they can insult and oppress with impunity forever. | So did Judas feel safe when ho helped cat the Lord’s supper with the Lord, i Gataline held power in Rome. Arnold once held a commission in the American army. And you—you vile creatures, whose infamy no epithet can describe and no jireccdent, parallel—you will find j-our names more odious than.those of Cataline and Arnold combined. I Immense applause and long laughter.] Return then, the day of grace is almost passed. Reform now and wc will forgive you. Ido not want a single man except a carpet-bagger to vote for this Chicago platform. And you, members ofthe Legislature. I will talk to you kindly—you who voted lor this infamy the other day— the Fourteenth Amendment —mark what I tell you. At the peril of your respectability, go and take ic back. It is a record whose stain will reach your children. And you who call yourselves Democrats, and who yet are lying round here seeking and bargaining to get offioe from a Legis lature which every line of Democratic principles declares to be an illegal and ille gitimate body, shame, shame upon j’ou. It this usurping Governor and Assembly had sufficient.regard tor the country’s wel fare to tender positions to Democrats, even ’the acceptance of such positions would present a question for serious consideration. \\ hile'l will not condemn those who differ with me, I must he permitted to say for myself that no earthly consideration or power could induce or force me to so far j recognize them as to accept an office at : their hands. Fqr myself, l hold them to j be nothing but wicked, willful and corrupt j usurpers of power, by authority of none hut strangers and deluded negroes, and wanton conspirators to subvert the lcgiti tnatc government of our Stale, and as sueli I shall hold tnj’seJf in readiness to visit upon them, by proper legal process, the penalties due to their crimes. I do not, of course, include in these remarks the Democratic members. These are there to prevent the mischiefs I announce. Their positions are necessarily unpleasant. But they arc making sacrifices by the votes of our people, aud are patriots, doing al! the good they can; or rather preventing all the evil they can, and merit oar regard. But those who voluntarily come forward to beg office of such a body; abov.e all, those who, cither in the Legislature or out of it, make bargains with Radical usurpers to got of fice for themselves or their friends—to al) such I repeat, shame, shame upon you! One thing more will be necessary to a proper expression of the abhorrence of our people for the infamous attempt to destroy the Union by destroying the equality of the States, and for the measures, authors and advocates of this whole scheme to de grade the States and people of the South. When liberty shall return, when the law shall be again respected, and good men shall again be our rulers, wc must gather all the journals, and constitutions, and enactments, and records of every character of the conventions and assemblies, thus forced upon us by force, and (raud, and usupation, and, catching fire from Heaven, burn them up forever 1 And right here, my countrymen, 1 want vou to understand that lam 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 free women, and the free men and the laughing children and the proud youth of Georgia, shall gather together to fire* the miserable, hideous reoord of infamy, let the office be mine to kindle the flames. | Tremendous cheers lasting several minutes.] That Is all I want. I would have my children know, I would have my children's children to know, if my humble life shall be remem bered so long, that from first to last, through thick and through thin, I fought this attempt to disgrace our people and that at the sequel I kin,died the fire that consumed the infamous record of its ex istence. 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 iio most trying ordeal in the annals of humanity , and, as a people, have come out gold—pure gold. Take courage, my oountrymen, that happy day shall come, j '{ be Union of equal States as made by our ! fathers shall be ours again. The disunion of unequal States which Radical treason seeks to make shall not be. With the record* of the vile attempt, we will build the bon fire of the Constitution’s triumph. By its light we shall read joy in each other’s faces. Around the burning pile we shall gather our wives and little ones and strike up anew the song of our deliverance, aud as llic ascending smoke shall rise high in the skies, it will wake the notes of our heroes in bliss, and Heaven and earth shall ring with the universal symphony; “Well done! Well done ! noble people ! Through sor rows the most bitter, through trials the roost severe, through misfortunes mul tiplied una prolonged, you have passed with your honor unsullied growing brighter and brighter. Enter again into the joys of freedom hero and finally into the realms, of the good hereafter. ’ ’ Mr. Hill took his seat amidst the most vociferous applause. Democratic Meet lux tn Burke. Dcimcracy Triumphant in Burke — Grand I tally—Great Enthusiasm—Patriotic Speech**— Our Colored Friends falling into Line [OOBRJ»rOB»KKC» OF TIIS C!ief,SICLK IX HINTIKII..I Wayneshoro’, Ga., July 27, 1 KGS. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel .-—An ex cellent barbecue was given and a most en thusiastic and successful Democratic meet ing held at Walker’s Bridge, in this coun ty, on Saturday last. I have never wit nessed a more creditable and satisfactory allair. Our eolored friends generally had beeu invited to attend, and did so in large numbers, notwithstanding the Union League had sent three omissaries from Au gusta to notify them that it would be a criminal violation of an order of that or ganization for any colored man to attend a Democratic meeting. What think you of that feature in Radical tactics? Waynes boro’ sent a large and intelligent delega tion, who arrived upon the ground with musio, lfcmocratic badges and the National flag. They then formed, with their Chair man, Mr. W. Ward, at their head, and marched in regular order to the arbor erect ed for the occasion, whero they were greet ed with three hearty cheers. As soon as quiet was restored Mr. W. Ward moved that the Honorable .Edmund Palmer be ealled to the Chair, and Capt. Wm. Henry Dickinson be requested to act as Secretary. The motion was seconded, and adopted unanimously. On motion a Committee of Three, con sisting of Judge W. W. Hughes, Gen. W. S. C- Morris, and Col. John D. Ashton, was appointed to draft suitable resolutions for the occasion. In due time the Com mittee, through their Chairman, reported the following, which, amid the greatest enthusiasm, were unanimously carried: WherSas, The present campaign for President and Vice President of the United States involve?) principles sacred to every freeman both black ami white : and Whereas, Wo sincerely believe that the Girvation of the great constitutional ami rights alike of the white aod free eolored citizens of this country now de pends upon the triumph of the Democratic party : Resolved , That in the nomination of Sey mour and Blair respectively for President and Vice President of the United States, the Democracy have presented to the American people candidates whose patriotism and fidelity to the Con stitution and laws of the land com mand our confidence, and entitle them to the support of the lovers of liberty and free government throughout the entire Re public. Resolved, That in our Democratic col ored friends and fellow-citizens everywhere we recognize law-abiding, conservative and i>atriotic co-workers in the great cause ot peace, law and order; and we honestly pledge them our sympathy and assistance in every effort to secure their rights and promote their prosperity. Resolved , That for our common good we hereby invoke their aid and co-opera tion in the approaching contest, that we may secure the election of rulers who will honor neither North nor South, nor black nor white, but a common country, and one destiny for us all. Resolved , That as the Radical party, for base and corrupt purposes, have charged the Democracy with desiring the re-en slavement of our eolored fellow-citizens, we hereby pronounce said charge utterly false and groundless; we recognize the emancipation of our colored friends, as an accomplished fact, never to he questioned or disturbed; and we pledge ourselves to.pro tect and defend them in their personal lib erty new and forever . Resolved, That in the noble and pat riotic delegation of our colored fellow eitizens from Waynesboro, we recognize freemen who are worthy of their liberty, and patriots who are not to be intimidated by threats, nor seduced by false promises of forty acres of larit and a mule, which no scalawags ever possessed. After the resolutions were adopted, Cos!. Ashton was called on, but, suffering from sore throat, was unable to respond. Capt,
