Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-11-07
On a High Key.

In the Seventh District OF Georgia there
j. to De special election for member of
Congress, 10 fill the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation Of W. T. Wolford. Dr. j.
P. Hambeton, of Atlanta, has announced
himself as candidate, in a card which is
pitched decidedly in high key. He sets
out with the somewhat startling declaration
Il think the crisis of the great North
American Republic is near at hand. The
Doctor evidently thinks he is evidently just
The man for the crisis" Hear him:
let Us, therefore, keep the faith, but
express no regret for the past, only the fail
ure 10 establish Southern Independence.
IF chosen to represt mt the 7th District
oi ieorgia In the Congress of the United
States, | can only subscribe to an oath to
faithfully support the Constitution.
The following paragraphs constitute the
m-st Of his card, and we present them with
the remark, that it viii be a good while be
6re rhe writer obtains a seat in the u lied
States House of Representatives:
The Congress which is TO assemble at
Washington City. on the first Monday of
G.ccmber next, will either plunge the couh-
Try into revolution and anarchy, or else, in
'ast threatened event, the fear OF Tin, nciai
Jlln may induce the North to consent that
the Southern States be permitted to enjoy
their ancient rights under the Constitution.
THE policy of the present Radical Con
gress ueal war, ruin, and degradation to
every cherished right aud interest of the
South.
Andrew johnson, President of the Uni
fed States, has alone shown disposition TO
1--WE back to the South the forms of Consti-
tjonal liberty, sad SO leRg as It is manifest
that he is EliIIag to treat the late Southern
Conledersey as ee-eeual sovereign States, it
is the duty Of the whole South to award him
cordial support. But as the South has no
voice in the Legislative department of the
government, let US remain true to the terms
OF the surrender, true to the Constitution,
true 10 ourselves, and true to our tradition
never yet, in the history of the world, won
back lost rights. Submission will secure for
US only the pity Of our friends and the con-
calm, but firm, for there is no party in the
4nlre full measure of her rights under the
Let US then claim nothing but what the
Constitution gives us! Let us make no con-
eeesloa but what is clearly warranted by the
Constitution And by all means, let us
,purn all efforts to amend or change the
Constitution Let us obey the laws, pay
the taxes, but uader no circumstances apol-
"gise Tor the many thrashings given the rep
resentatives of the best government the
world ever saw, at Bull Run and other
places too numerous to think of. Let us
never acknowledge ourselves traitors or infe-
siors
Let US maintain, boldly, fearlessly
and dehantly, if we choose, that the South
IN her effort to establish a Southern Con-
lederacy, was guilty of no crime, and al
though failing, was simply in the exercise Of
an lnalienable right, the underlying princi-
pies and cause of which was the noblest the
srandest, the most righteous and glorious
.Or which any people ever battled Cring-
ias, crawling, fawning and apologizing has
gone the South no good Nothing but
oood and plunder viii satisfy the radical
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