Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-23

ern manufacturers than helping them
selves at home. TALLER.
Speech Of Gen. Robert Toombs. at Atlanta,
Georgia, on Wednesday, July 8. 1868.
Cheers having been repeatedly given
for the New York nominations, General
Toombs came forward, and said:
Thanks, fellow citizens, for these noble
cheers They show to the world that a
despotism of thousand days, if not a
thousand years, and the loosing upon us,
not one, but ten thousand devils, have
been unable to influence the great heart
of the people of Atlanta. l would not
have it otherwise from you, for in the
darkest days of the recent past the first
voice Of defiance to tyranny came out of
the ashes of Atlanta.
Tonight we may rejoice and be ex-
ceeding glad, for the electric hash-the
great instrument of modern science, and
which has been made to obey the will and
minister to the wants of man-sends
throughout this broad land, from ocean
to ocean, and from the lakes to the Gulf,
such news as will gladden. the heart of
every honest man in the universe.
We now find placed before the grand
inquest of the Democratic party of the
United States, the greatest criminals the
world ever saw. The brave, wise, earn
est and honest men of the country have
been counseling together, without hate
and without passion, and have laid down
the principles upon which they have de-
termined to grappe with the enemy.
They stand upon the old landmarks
which safely carried our British snces-
tors through six hundred years of toll
and trouble and bloodshed, landing them
finally on the rock of liberty and of hope.
They have adopted the great funda-
mental principles of human liberty as de-
veloped in Magma Charta; they have
adopted principles having for their OBJ
jects the security of the citizen and the
safety of the laws. Having proclaimed
these principles on the banner of the
Democratic party, the next thing to be
attended TO was to place man at the
head of the movement who possessed the
requisite ability. and who had sufficiently
proven himself. This man has been
found in the Empire State of the Union.
The shouts of triumph are echoing
through the land, and thousands and
hundreds of thousands of glad voices are
crying, "This shall be white mans
government" 1t is right, too, that one
of the noblest sons of New York should
have been presented to the people of the
United States for their suffrage in behalf
of truth and right.
/ would scorn, gentlemen, to deceive
you, and / therefore wish to say that the
favorite son of Ohio, whom have known
well and long, was my favorite above all
other men-true in peace and true in
war He has proved sacrifice to the
holiest of all causes-popular liberty.
Ohio did it herself-backed by her most
noble sons 1t must not now be ques-
ton of favoritism-it is a question of
principle; and where is there mana
white man-an honest man-in all the
country, from one end to the other, who
can object to the principles of the plat
form presented to the people of the
country. They are the same that are
given us in the Constitution ofth United
States, regarding alike the rights of the
people and the rights of the States.
We have now arraigned before the bar
of the whole world the men whose acts,
for the last six years, have shamed
human nature itself, and violated every
principle of virtue and of truth.
What is not good for Ohio, or Michi-
gan, or Radical Maine, is, according to
the doctrine of these men, plenty good
for Georgia." and the other Southern
States which are now being brought, as
they say, into the sisterhood-or half
sisterhood Is any man going to accept
terms that degrade him and his children
forever2 What these people call "re.
construction measures are null and
void, and not law. They overturn the
Constitution of the United States, and
all the rights, privileges and securities of
our citizens, for life, liberty and prop
erty. And because they could not work
these iniquities through the courts, they
took eur courts away. The Judiciary
must fall before them
Congress has all the power, and keeps
it. As for ourselves, we have no courts,
no constitution, no civil law, no hdbeas
even military law. They
set up military courts without even the
restrictions Of military law, and they
stand before the world to-day their own
expounders Of law and justice No man
has one hours exemption from the i'm
positions of power. You are all tenants
at viii, in your property, lives and
liberties
But there comes 10 the rescue mighty
army, with its thousands Of banners and
bravest Of men. from California and from
Oregon; from the rocks Of New England
aud the plains Of New York. and the iron
regions Of Pennsylvsnia- Come, every
man, and join this glorious banner. We
viii effect the object il every honest
man does his duty. Take away this
chance, aud where are you7 Down
trodden, robbed, insulted, plundered,
with no Law 70 save but the irremediable
measures enacted BY God himself Come,
hen, every man lie, the good come