The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-08-08
Synopsis Ofthe Speech of Col.
Il. Nj. Yerger, of mississippi,
at the Great Ratification
Meeting i'm New York,

The Speaker being loudly called
for, was received with three cheers;
Mr.. Yerger said:
Fello.0- Citizens Of Neno York-In
obedience to your call | speak, and in
the name of Mississippi | congratu-
late the Democrats on the nominations
of the noble patriots who have been
selected to save the country from
radical misrule, There might be
individual disappointments at the
action Of the Convention, but they
would soon yeld-to the patriotism OIL
the hour. The great American heart,
from New York to California, is
throbbing in unison with the action of
the Convention, and every thinking
mae in the country must support our
nominees, as his individual liberty
and personal prosperity can only be
secured by Democratic success. There
is no escape for the traitors who have
broken the cOnvenant of the Consti-
tuition they have feasted upon the
vine Of Sodom and the grapes Of
Gomorrah they have dared to look
back, aud to>day stand monumental
pillars Of folly upon the margin of
Dead Sea, He would say nothing
disrespectfUl of the General Of the
Army of the Uunited States; but it
was due to caBdor and truth to say
that Grant was regarded throughout
the South, as politician without even
the semblaLce of craftsmanship, and
as a soldier who had blotted the re-
cord of his own fame with the blood
Of thousands who were recklessly
sacriGeed-victims to the stupidity
and ambition of a fifth rate intellect.
Great cheering.
We of the South are amazed when
we behold laurels adorniug the brow
Of Gen. Grant which rightfully be,
long to Gen. Sherman. Sherman not
Grant, broke the back bone of the res
bellion; and if there is virtue in it,
Sherman is chiefly entitled to the re-
ward The American people will be
careful how they trust their liberties
in the hands Of purely military man,
Military rule is tyrannical rule which
sooner or later will he resisted by a
people educated as freemen. We want
peace-we must have peace but we
cannot have it under the accumulated
expressions of a party which day by
day IS destroying the landmarks Of
civil liberty on this continent.
[Cheers
1t was the maxim Of great sol.
dier. thatif war is the scourge of hu-
manity, tho scourge loses a great part
Of its unhappy influence, when the
force Of arms is called to protect and
not to destroy, If you, men Of the
North, are determined to have the
Union in its integrity, you will have
it at all hazards. You will not suffer
a corrupt, tyrannical and revolutions
airy party to usulp the "best govern
ment the world ever saw" rCries 0 {
chats so" and cheers. We must
avoid strife by rallying 10 the Demo-
cratic banner. Every peace man must
be a Democrat and he who would
recklessly involve this country in an
Other fratricidal strife deserves to be
cursed as a despot, ready to pledge
another Cataline with the cup Of hu-
man blood.
The South has been charged with
the denial of justice to the black
man. It is false We win not will
ing or peacefully permit him to govern
but we have secured to him equality
before the law, which is perfect jus,
tice. The Speaker was willing to
award justice to all men of whatever
race or color; but the Anglo.Saxop
race must stand pre,eminent as rulers
in America. Applause. None but
political charlatans would contend
that suffrage was natural right. All
governments, regardless of origin OF
, procadents, should be founded OF
justice or natural law. We lave
surrendered slavery in obedience tC
the voice Of vast majority Of tn,
civilized nations of the earth--the
institution was guaranteed to US, i
f was born of the government which
we inherited, but we have abandoned
{ it and look not to its origin. w,
> want justice we stand by the nat,
pral laW-precedents outside of thi
rule are disregarded by the oonscien
tious statesman. Did Mozart thinl
! Of the origin of music when he com
posed his grand Requiem2 or Milto
n the origin of language when he sun
his paradise Lost2
9 The party of splendid vices and al
= fected vrtues-the disunion, Radica
n party of the country-must 60 dowr
:, if we would maintain republican goy
: ernment in America. We ask tn
Democracy of New York, and Of til
North, to rescue the eight millions I
Il whites at the South, from the opprei
i. sion Of negro domiuation-tako ava
4 your bayonets and your Freedman
i Bureau and you secure content an
+. friendship among all classes Of o,
: people,
I 4 Toice.-Tel Us how you won
}. Mississippi.
/ The Speaker continued, We won /
! the universal uprising Of the me
of women and children Of our land. "
= were moved by the spirit which ii
! pressed the great Henry when
= uttered the words, aGive me hbcr