The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-12

| State and as such / sLall hold myself in
readiness to visit upon them, by proper
lecal process, the penalties due to their
crimes. I do not, of course, include in
these remarks the Democratic members
These are there to prerent the mischiefs
announce. Their positions are necessa.
rily unpleasant. But they are making
sacrifices by the votes of our people, and
are patriots, doing all the good they can,
or rather preventing all the evil they can,
and merit our regard. But those who
voluntarily come forward to beg Office OF
such a body; above all, those who, either
in the Legislature or out of it, make bar
gains with Radical usurpers to get office
for themselves or their friends-to all
such l repeat, shame, shame upon you!
One thing more will be necessary to a
proper expression Of the adherence of our
people for the infamous attempt to de-
stroy the Union by destroying the equali-
ty OF the States, and for the measures,
authors and advocates of this whole
scheme to degrade 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,
we must gather all the journals, and con-
stitutions, and enactments, and records OF
every character of the conventions and
assemblies, thus forced upon US by force,
and fraud, and usurpation, and catching
fire from Heaven, burn them up forever.
And right here, my countrymen, l
want you to understand that am candi-
date but for one Office on earth. [Several
voices "name it and you shall have it. u
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 record of infamy, let
the office be mine to kindlo the flames.
Tremendous cheers lasting several min
utes. That is all l want. would have
my children know, l would have my chill
dren's childron to know, if my humble life
shall be remembered so long, that from
first 10 last, through thick and through
thin, l fought this attempt to disgrace
our people and that at the sequel kindled
the fire that consumed the infamous re-
cord of its existence. That will DO a
proud day, my countrymep, that will be
a glorious day when you and 1 can look
each other in the face and teol as no Gre
clan ever fclt-as TO Roman ever folt,
that we have passed through the most
trying ordeal in tho annals Of humanity
and, as people, havc come out gold-pure
gold Take courage, my countrymsn,
that happy day shall come. The 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
records of the vile attempt, we will build
the bon6rc of the Constitutions triumph.
By it's light we shall read Joy in each
others face. Around the burning pile
we shall gather our wives and little ones
and strike up anew tho song of our de-
livcrancc, and as the ascending smoke
shall rise high in the skies, it will wake
the notes of our heroes in bliss, and Heav-
en- and earth shall ring with the univer-
sal symphony: "Wcll done Well done!
noble people! Through sorrows the most
bitter, through trials the most severe.
through mistortunes multiplied and pro
longed, you have passed with your honor
unsullicd growing brighter and brighter
Enter again into the joys Of freedom here
and finally into the realms OF the good
hereafter"