The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-08-07

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il these things the people will call you to >
Judgment. Prolonged applause. All! t
What an issue you have made for yourselves
Succeed, and you destroy the Con titution!
Fail, and you have covered the land with
Succeed, and you bring ruin
On yourselves and all the country! Fail,
and you bring infamy upon yourselves and
all your deluded .followersl Succeed and
you are the perjured assassins Of liberty
Fail and you are defeated, despised traitors
forever Ye who aspire to be Radical
Governors and Judges in Georgia, l paint
before you this day your destiny. [Unboun-
eed Unbounded applause. You are but
towards and knaves and the time will
come when you will call upon the rocks
and mountains to fall on you and the dark
ness to hide you from an outraged people
Does it do you good to trample on the
Constitution-deceive the negroes anu rum
the country? 1t may be sweet now, but
tell you the suIpburous fires of public in
fanny will never be quenched on your spirits
TApplause l pity you from my soul.
Would that the time had never come when
| I had to stand upon Georgias' soil and
thus talk to Georgians. A struggle is
coming. 1t may be a long and bloody
one, and you who advocate this wicked
scheme will perish in it, unless the people
now arouse and check its contamination.
Let'every true law-loving man rally at once
to the standard Of the Constitution OF his
country. [Applause. Come. Do not aban-
don your rights. Defend them. Talk for
them, and if need be, before God and the
country, fight and die for them. Enthusi-
astic and prolonged APPLAUSE Do not not
talk or think of secession or disunion, but
come M to the good old platform or our
fathers-the Constitution. Let all, n orth
, and South, come and swear before God that
) we will abide by it in good faith, and
: oppose everything that violates it. The
man who loves the Constitution now and IS
4 willing to live and die for it, is my friend
: and brother, though he come from the frozen
4 neak of Mount Washington and the man
!, = Who is for trampling upon it is my, enemy
h and I shall hold him 50, though he come
q from the sunny cline of the orange and th1
r cotton bloom That is my issue.
l. 9Ol how sorry creature is the man who
r cannot stand up for The truth, when tn
i country is in danger. There never wa
n such an opportunity as now exists Tor
q man to show Of what stutf ne IS mace lp
u u How can you 60 about the street ana say
~ "All il wrong, but cannot help itE 70
Il want courage, my friend You are
If coward You lack courage to tell the trut
1e and would sell your birthright for a ten
I'd porary mess of pottage, even for a HUI
he bit Of judgeship or bureau omcef
H. place. ,, III
q itPn ! will resist it first by not approving l
ed ed if everybody would do that it would
er effectnallv resisted SO far as we are col
~ ~ cerned But the so-called Congress h'
I'D nrovided a cover for itself in advanc
al under which to hide from the odlum attac
len ing to this scheme. 1t has provided tn
The Won Won can vote either for or against a co
ore yention and again vote for or against wha
sty aver constitution it may frame. 1t
I'M, so1eht to make as responsible for whatev
aia NAV be the consequences and relieve the
pts, After while when you become alarmed
' mt the results, they will say, "We did not
ags this we only gave you chance ana y
lpt- did it," !, .r..
ms. Rut if we defeat this, 1t is said, militia
yiv- rule will continue. Certainly-until VII
de ed men shall be driven from power. 1
and LET, It be 80. General Pope seems to
nee gentleman, and l infinitely prefer his NJ, r
pre- to the rule of such men as you Will
-, under this scheme. Besides, the new 3
one eminent, if inaugurated, will not be able
anu .l live day without military protection.
oe, - is safer to be governed by power than
un. Perhaps you will think I have overdra
IN the nicture of the fearful consequences
,a ,ns accepting this scheme recollect on
s ;aoI cident which occurred over SIX years
ia a when was urging the people OF Geol
ms le' not to secede, because the country wo
INA thereby fall into the hands Of Radicals,
, nredicted war and it's attendant sutierl
a. ss as the result--though then deemed vlslo
's s',. ~. would be almost ashamed now
our gu. read my remarks Of that day-my plc'
'i Ia4 would be 30 tame and 80 far snort OF
NV NV dreadful reality that has followed a
,. lor prominent gentleman replied to me- url
stor, hat there would be no war, and TO pr
9me' It he read an PARTICLE from Horace Greel
\ re- Tr;bupe and old Ben. Wade's spe
,l1 nn declaring the South had right TO sec
We and if she chose to exercise that rlght'
~ Is should be allowed to do 80 in peace
'Ifoy then said that Greeley and Wade '
e el- better friends Of the South than who
Tue born here, for was trying to frightsen
Ell en- Southern people from the exercise OF
1Iu';, which they conceded, and they were II
l. us 10 sentative men of their party. What Q
Ine I say,in reply9 l could only tell him
a1at, trntb- that these men only desired
'o , encourage the South to disunlon ior
oes- wicked purposes to destroy the Cons
~ l.'t ~ ton; and that great government, 6
~! W no. be dissolved without blood ana
's si have Greeley and Wade done since
Time time, and now advise you to reject
ways scheme OF force, fraud and deceit v
lac, Congress has devised. II you, OF
0plsa own free will, submit to it, you will SCI
! %" all consequences OF it, m, -, ).
= : t a., advise you to register. Ihere II
sne dishonor in that. 1t is armlng yo.'
aoya,' with an important power to be WI
1 ,es,S against the. nefarioas scheme ou1
alc .aa.s vote for conventon-doh't go Io !.
you you thing whatever which Is an assent 70
aeaa scheme 1 but, be against II at every
'n nou Never 60 half way with o trallol' n.y.
con, promise with treason or robbery. II
al hold q convention, vote against ra
m m, tion-vote against all their measures
PIE en- u men, and indict every one who aaae Z,
anu void authority, invades your rights , a. a.
s nases ing TO existing State laws; j, Ina =;
81 ,ts policy. Fight this scheme all tae III
aa INT ,lle have no more idea of obeying than
'nnrta Hampden had Of paying smP'mon =,
'oar.s s cause ! have taken an oath to su
y, aeu the Constitution, and intend TO keeIl
us sn 10 ,of This whole scheme is in violation
ah So,s the issues of the wa7-ail the pre-
= r ,en during its progress-and all the ter
~ tvr surrender. More than hundred the
'o'''" men abandoned Lees army because
,.,,. were assured that if they LAID do"f