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any other Territory, as would defend the
people of Pennsylvania and of Georgia from
any and every body who would seek to in
terfere with the organization of their gov
ernment upon such principles as they them
selves may desire to establish. [Applause.
Will tho black republicans and know no
things meet me upon the issue {? No, no,
mol No, my friends, they will not. IA
voice: : We are to small for theml You
know the principles ; they commend them
selves to your heart; but when these prin-
Tciples are addressed to the peope-when
the Judgment of the people is invoked to
pass on the great questions, instead of meet
ing the issue as they ought to do, but ms
they dare not do, Good, know nothing
will get up, and he will become terribly
Mortified at the idea that either an Irishman
or a Catholic is about to take away the lib
critics of the country Applause, and
shouts Of that's so. The black republican
will rise up and present to you the most ter
rible picture OF men shot down in cold blood
and slaughtered in Kansas, and every one
of them stays killed until after the election,
and then they mysteriously revive. Laugh
ter.
These and other such questions are pre-
sented to you, my friends, not only as a
democrat, asa Georgian, and as an Afneri-
can, but AS a patriot, as man who lives In
this Union, who loves this constitution, who
has devoted to the protection of the one
and the preservation of the other the better
days of younger manhood. l appeal to
You this night; be not led off by these false
issues stand upon the noble principles
which your party has established as the
platform upon Which they intend to conduct
the issue, and let know nothings howl a.
bout lrishmen and Catholics; let black re-
publicans republisb and reprint their false
clamor about the violation of law in Kan
sas. l give tonight, to one and all of them,
the same answer which trust you will give
when they call upon yon to Join in indisss-
| nation meetings 10 raise shouts and huzzahs
overthcse outside issues. There is one re-
ply, my friends. 1t is not mine it is yours:
it IS the reply which the fathers of the rev.
olution prepared for You in Independence
| Hall let the constitution and the law be
maintained and preserved. Applause.1 +.
.as a southern man, will stand by the con-
stitution you and Pennsylvanians will
stand by the constitution and all laws pass
ed in pursuance thereof and if the consti-
tutipn and tic laws bear upon me and nv
prcjudices, with tho fortitude of a true pa
lriot, with heart that loves nv country. I
will say to mere sectional prejudiccs that
rise up in my breast, "Gct thee behind me.
Satan" Istand firm for the constitution and
the Union. [App!ause.] -
The speaker proceeded to urge, in for
cl1e manner, the duty Of persons in Kan
sas to abide 10y the decisions Of constituted
authorities Of the country. ...
He then addressed himself n any know
nothing friends who might be present,
though it APPEARED very much like "shoot,
'"s at dead duck" Why, he asked, have
you abandoned your passwords and dis
charged your sentinels Why were they
right last year and wrong now
How could Mr.. Fimore-having sworn,
appointed, to remove every Roman Cath
olic and to select none for office-take an
oathto support the constitution, one clause
OF which provides that no religious test
shall be required How could hetdisharee
his duty and save his conscience free from
both oathsS2s TO prevent his taking the
second oath WAS tho only mode.
II there. stirs in your veins, he added,
:. one particle Of revolutionary bIood-if there
| remains onesfemnant of devotion to the
memory Of tie Father of his Country-if
there is room in your soul upon which tho
fs5hstitution of the republic can plant one
single foot-hold. beg and entreat you,
this night, to abandon not only your lives
and obligations, but the unconstitutional
principles which they enjoin.-R Return from
the path which you have strayed.
!, f-a democrat, I appeal to you by all
yonr past associations, by the brilliant tri-
umphs Of your party. If wings, I appeal
to you by sihfilar, recollections.. Be YOU
democrats or wings you can fndsnothinS q ii
the history of your party to Justify tiliisvio-
lation OF the sacred principles and provis-
ions of the constitution.
In regard to.blaeE republicans, he said
that iffany one believed our constitution
and Union strong enough to remain four
years under the administration Of William
II. Seward, or one ofssimilar principles
an administration based upon antagonism
to every principle Of justice and equality
: under the constitution that man sup
'tport them. 'A'' 90 ''>~'|
\ "a RAILROAD AD'FouNDLrNa. a.-The George
Law brought home On Friday, from Aspin-
wall, very extraosdinary passenger, abaut
fifteen months old, found amid the wreck
4 and ruins cssated by the iatesaikoad calaun-
ity there Fafher and mo, Eass mi s;,,,s