The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-08-29

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crowd and more respectable one works
on my plantation every day, because
they work for their daily bread and meat,
and are respectable compared to the set
of loafers that hang around these halls
Tell them that that was the people in
whose hands and under whose control
you left this noble old State, when you
turned your back upon me, to seek your
own homes, and then tell them that on
the 23d of July there was another as
sembsge calling themselves the people
of Georgia. Come now and stand by my
side. l want you to cast your eyes over
this vast assembly. Come and look upon
those daughters Of eSeorgia, and, gentle
men of the North, tell me-you have
hearts-you have souls-you have in
your own States, mothers, wives and
sisters-I ask you to come here to-day
and stand upon this platform and look
upon my mother and sisters, and wife,
and little ones, and tell me in your heart
is ii right, and just and proper? Does
your own heart dictate il, that those
women and children ought to be under
the dominion of those negroes that as
sembled on. the Fourth of July? If
there is one pulsation left in your heart
if there is one single throb left to beat
for the people of the South-come and
look upon this picture. Around them
you see old men, denounced that they
have been as rebels, but from their south
up they have lived in Georgia. Their
neighbors know them, respect them, es-
TEEN them, love them. Ought these men
to be placed under that negro dominion
Ought these men to be required to bow
their neeks which oppression and despo-
tism have prepared for them?
Oh men Of the North, as ye travel
homeward, spread these truths broad
east and when you receive cordis
welcome into your own homestead, anc
press npon your lips the kiss of affection
and love, remember, beg you remem
ber the mothers, wives, and daughters O.
Georgia. If you cannot feel for then
in that hour, then the spirit of love and
affection has departed from you, never
again to be reclaimed. Tell that In the
midst of all these wrongs, that there wa:
not in all Georgia a single daughter that
bowed her head to the yoke. Tell then
that our brave men stood submissive al
the point of the bayonet. Tell them thai
kindness and generosity would have wor
back the allegiance of their hearts, but
all the bayonets that ever were made in
American Union cannot drive manhood
from their breast. Applause. Tel
that these men were brave and generous
to the last, hating their enemies, loving
their friends, and, even if it had beer
necessary, from the scaffold they would
have hurled defiance in the teeth Of theii
oppressors. They would have welcomed
every noble and generous heart to thu
,, South with cordiality they extend alone
to those they love. Applause. Tel
them, moreover, Georgia has home fol
every true man of the North. She has
welcome for every true man that viii
come to live among them, and with then
, and be of them. But she has neither
9 true welcome nor false hospitality q
offer to those who come to wrong an'
9 oppress them, and when you have tol,
, them all this, tell them that in Georgi
there was but one voice, one heart, on
6 soul, one spirit. When you turn you
back upon the State, looking through al
her length and breadth, upon her noun
: tains, in her valleys, in her cities, in he
towns, along the public highways, in til
public and private workshops, you don
9 leave behind you one single white rad
cal advocate of the Chicago platforI
who was worthy of the respect and cor
, idence of a gentleman. Applause
Tell them these things and if you pre-
sent tlnes. f-;.tf-i'y i'ysy--. will have mad
: | q stronger argument, and more pSwe'
: : Yni appeal for Seymour aud Blair, than
can put in your mouths to-day. Ihi
this is the picture that want you
\ present"