The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-30

they may think and aot as they please at the
South, provided they obey the laws.
The speech of Howell Cobb at the Demo-
cratic Ratification meeting at Atlanta, Ca, on
the 23d inst, affords striking and undersigned
confirmation OF our view.
Howell Comb is a representative man. He
was Democratic member of Congress for
many years, and was Speaker during the
Thirty He was thence transferred to the
Senate, where he served with distinction until
called to the Cabinet of Mr.. Buchanan, as
Secretary Of ths Treasury. While holding
that most responsible position he perverted
its great powers to the furtherance of seces-
sion, ard was powerfully instrumental in
forcing Georgia into rebellion. When he at
length resigned to go South, he left the
finances in a state OF chaos; having depleted
the Treasury to pay off millions OF debt not
yet due at a large premium, and then tried
to borrow at most Hsurious rates to fill
the vacuum. Most certainly if man was
ever traitor, then was Howell Cobb q
traitor. As such-having done his utmost to
destroy the Union-he is disfranchised by
Congress.
Joseph Z. Brown is also Georgian by birth
and lifelong residence, was elected Governor
as a Democrat, and did much to plunge Geor-
gia into Rebellion. Having got enough of this,
he is now Republican, favors universal am-
nesty and impartial suffrage, and is regarded
as a radical leader. OF him, and such as he,
Howell Cobb thus speaks in his harangue re-
ported in our last:-
"a friend told me, as / was coming here the
other day. that he heard another say that, by a
speech that l had made at Davis Hall / had
made half dozen votes for Joe Brown. Well.
/ came to make half q dozen more to-day. He
and his associates were at Chicago. He and his
associates Joined and united in pronouncing
this Infamous doctrine - the niger is good
enough for Georgia, but not good enough for
Ohio and New York. Are not the peopIe OF
Georgia right in assigning him the status
which he has taken for himself? n niggers are
good enough for Georgia, IT is that Kind of
doctrine. daughter and applause) Let him
associate with them, but white men of this
country, cut loose from him "a voice says
'Amen.O Amen aud Amen Let IL reverberate
over your nountains, down your valleys,
fIom your old men and your young men, your
chorus shall ring through every tnrobblng
heart: Overheard with him = He has turned
traitor 10 the country = tell you very frankly,
my friends, l am not an intOlerant man; but
When l see white man talking to Joe Brown
and That class OF mtn feeling OF revusion
comes over me. can't help IL. But when
see them talking TO negro. 1 feel sorry for the
negro. That is six more votes for Joe Brown
| VIII give him about three more, and quit
him. say TO you, my friends You owe it to
yourselves, you owe it to The noble dead who
sleep IN their graves, TO observe these things
You 60 here-and l honor you for it-aud SC At
ter flowers over those graves. God bless you for
il! They re the graves of good, True, and hon.
est ard noble ana brave, and generous men,
But as you return from that solemn duty
turn your back 10 the rigut and lefi upon those
owe IT to the livirg yod o|e IL to your own
children and 10 their children. " rite down in
their memories this day and all days and for
all time 10 come the feeling and spirit of abhor
renee with which you regard and estimate
words hat may write tnfamy upon the fore
head OF these men (appIauseG tnat they may
faVel ,hTqqgh mr. earth ass9ised OF all men and
s. IT, They may seek their final congenial rest.
hg place under the mudsills of that. ancient
irs ttutiob. daughter and applause.w
10 fha Of 4,
Rebel-a captured and paroled Rebel-toward
one who formerly a Rebel, has chosen to be a
Rebel no longer. Howell Cobb exhorts his
fellow Rebels to hold no intercourse with such
men as Ex-Governor Brownie would write
words of infamy on their foreheads, and have
them despised of men, rejected of heaven
scorned by the Devil himself.
When an ex-U. S. Senator and Secretary of
the Treasury can talk thus, we may be sure
that his eXhOrtations will be outdone. Thou
sands will stand ready to butcher Governor
Brown, as they have butchered George w.
Ashburn and so many others. And no white
man from the North or from Europe can live
| in Georgia away from Federal protection if he
! avows himself Republican. And as in Geor-
| gia so is it wherever the internal spirit of
| slavery and secession is still dominant.
Should any such calamity IS the election of
| Seymour be inflicted on our country, all white
| Republicans will be driven pel-mell from the
| South, as they were at the outbreak of the
former Rebellion. Indeed, those who get
away alive may esteem themselves fortunate.
| The blacks will generally be allowed to stay,
provided they resign the right of suffrage and
sink quietly into vassaage. The bolder
| spirits will be killed or driven out Hen1e we
advise Northern men who are not Copperheads,
not to migrate Southwark until it shall have
been settled that they may there enjoy the
protection of the laws. After Grant and Col
fax shall have been elected, they may go with
| out fear.