Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-09

MANruL WoRDs.-Ex-Governor Joseph
E. Brown, who filled tho Executive
chair of Georgia while that State was q
member of the Confedcracy, made a
speech before the Chicago Convention,
from which we make the following OK
tracts, and commend their common
sense and true manliness to tho consid-
Grafton of our Democratic fellow.citi-
zen Referring to his former position,
he said:
BY my theory land l had been taught that
il was the true oncl, my primary allegiance
was to tho State. When I had formerly taken
an oath to support the Constitution OF the
United States, / understood it to bind me
only when my State remained in the Union ;
but IL she withdrew (which / believed she had
the right to do, for just cause, according to
the necessity OF the case), that she must be
the Judge. I did not feel that ! had violated
that oath when l went with my State, and
since that time. And the one which the
President Of the United States gave me was
very different. He required me to take q
very different oath. l was sworn to support
not only the Constitution Of the United
States, but the Union OF the States. Zap
plausc.l When l did that l abandoned the
doctrine Of secession; for l cannot support
tho Union Of the States and encourage seces-
sion from the Union. [Cheers.
As I understood the doctrines OF Democracy,
they were sovereignty and the right OF scccs.
sion, The sword has established a different
doctrine, and hence it is that I am no longer
bound BY party allegiance to the Democratic
party. The Hamiltonian and Websterian
construction Of the Constitution has been
established by the sword. 1hayc acquiesced
in that, and as I find the Republican party
standing on the platform to-day that has been
abandoned by the Democratic party, that nat.
urally leads me into the Republican party.
[Cheers.1 / know this is a very unpopular
doctrine in the South, but / believe It is the
true doctrine. But let me tell you, Mr.. Pres
ident and gentlemen. that there arc many
white men In the South-there are large
numbers Of original Democrats in the South
there are large numbers Of original seces.
sionists in the South who to-day stand as
firmly by the Republican party, and who will
support the Great Captain Of the age-Gen-
eral Grant. [Great applause.l Our Demo-
cratic friends have opposed negro suffrage
and denounced It as an outrage upon man
hood and upon society, and yet in tho late
elections there tLs negro who would vote the
Democratic ticket was really q very respect.
able fellow! tlaughterl and a white man who
voted the Republican ticket was a scallywag
and q traitor. [Cheers and laughter.l They
tells us there "you establish negro suprem-
acy in the South" Not so. Not so. While
we grant to the colored people all their rights,
civil and political, we do not expect them to
DO our masters. Much as you have seen in
the papers on that subject, it is not so. In
the State Of Georgia, for instance, when those
who are included within the Constitutional
Amendment. and who will be voters. although
they have no right to hold Offices under our
Constitution, come to the ballot-box, there
are twenty thousand majority Of white men
there. We have the advantage Of education.
We have the advantage in experience, and we
claim that we have the superiority Of race.
Tell me not, then, that the black people Of
Georgia can rule Georgia, when they are
twenty thousand in the minority, and We
have all these advantages.