The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-10
REMARKS OF JUDGE A. P. ALDR1cH.

Gentlenae" Of the Conuention I desire to
place on II ord some evidence Of the appre-
cii ion we feel for the kindness extended to
the delegation from South Carolina by dele
gates from the North, East and West during
the late Convention in New York. When wa
heard the hearty cheers and felt the warm
grasp of men who had gallantly contended
against us for four years, and who declared
that their object was to preserve the Union,
and not to blot out ten States; when We heard
Frank Blair ask what country would not be
proud Of such citizens as Lee, Johnston, and
our own Wade Hampton; nay, more, when the
name Of our beloved State WAS called and
greeted with thunders of applause, shout upon
shout, until the worry welhn rang, we knew that
these people were in earnest. 1t was the only
evidence OF peace that we had seen since the
war. I took heart, for I felt the day OF deliv-
erance was at hand. I felt that party Has
forming which would restore the Union, and
termined then and there to devote my energies
and the best talents which God has given me
to this great work. With these remarks, I beg.
leave to introduce the following:
Resoloed, That the frank, hearty and cordia
reception extended TO our Sou hern delega-
from the East, the North and the West, is an
earnest Of their sincere desire 10 renew frater-
nal relations and to work with ps to restore
the government Of the constitutions PROOF
of their sympathy and sineerity-and evidence
of their determination to aid us III bringing
back the Union Of our fathers. We accept it
in good faith, and gratefully declare that it has
done more to heal the wounds of the past than
any occurrence since the war. We look hope
fully to the future.
On motion, the Convention resolved itself
into Committee Of the Whole, Judge Aldrich
being in the chair, when the following resolu-
tion was offered and unanimously adopted:
-ol 81 f1,a fhonI NJ ta HOr,u
are returned to the President and Secretaries,
for the able and agreeable manner in which,
they have performed the arduous duties which
have devolved upon them.
The Committee Of the Whole then rose, and,
Hon. Armistead Burt having resumed the chair,
the resolution was presented to him by Judgs.'
Aldrich, in a few feeling and appropriate re-
marks.
REMARKS OF THE HON. a. BURT.
Gentlemen: receive, with the deepest sem
sibility, this manifestation OF your partiality'
and kindness. Through life, shall remember
that I have received this commentator, and
endeayor TO make some slight return for it by
the conservation of myself to the great cause
we have assembled here to promote.
You, gentlemen, have carried out grave, q
glorious line of duty-a work that will require,
all the manhood and heroism Of your n ature--
all the high spirit and noble resolution Of
South Carolinians.
You have resolved to rescue your country
and lis affairs from the vandal hands that have
seized and desecrated them. You have re-
solved to protect your fresides and to recon-
quer your homes from the strangers who now
hold them. Such work is worthy OF freemen.
It is glorious work, but it is On enterprise
that calls for an exhibition Of every virtue and
every quality Of manhood.
For one, shall leave this hall tonight with
the solemn VOW, that never. no, never shall my
voice become still, save in death, until We have
rescued this country, restored it to its rlghtful
owners, and expelled from its borders those.
who have usurped and hold its places.
When, in other times, I have heard the North
commended for it's enterprise, never doubted
that their people possessed . ;. more nor ~ than lou our
genius, daring and heroism which can accom-
pEsh the noblest ends. Thank God, thereis life
In the old State yet. [Great applause. 1t is our
grateful task to evoke it, and make it worthy OF
our glorious past. We-cannot consent to be,
governed by strangers and Africans. We
should be rebuked by the whole history of our
past. and by all the memories Of the days that
are past and gone.
One and all, let us rise to the height OF this
great crisis. Let usredeem our State and con-
stitution. Let us fall into line with that gall
liant band Of Democrats in the North and West
who have thrown their banner to the breeze,
and, looking upon its bright folds, swear by
GQaI blpu We yeG VIII conquer. lUIedb dp-
plause.] The time draws near when we must
separate. We may yet live as freemen in the
possession Of the soil upon which We we're
born-of this country which was discovered by.
the white man, settled by the white man, made
illustrious by the white man, and must con-
tinue to be the white mans country. Zap
plause.]
Let US take from this hall the enthusiasm
which our councils have produced. In addi-
ton to the official canvassers appointed to-
night, let us make every white man in South
Carolina canyasser and ever family Demo-
cTatic Club. II we resolve to carry this elec-
iti5hAto do our duty, nobly, desperately, if need
be-yictory in November is 81 certain as tn e
coming of the month itself. I ell you that if
the white men do their duty, Seymour and
Blair, who now bear the banner OF the p arty in
this great contest, will be our triumphant and
successful champions; and that they shall be
so, let us here tonight, every man ofus, pledge
his energies, his means, all that he has, all
that he ever hopes to be. [Great applause.1
On motion Of ]. P. Thomas, the Convention
then adjourned sine die.