New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-01

"a the sun. Give Wade Hampton and his
friends power and we shall have another civil
war TO prove "the Reconstruction acts uncon-
stitutional, revolutionary, and void"
This is solemn charge, but let us press II
and call up the witnesses Wade Hampton ana
Frank Blair have spoken. Here is Robert
Toombs, a prominent Democrat of Georgia:
Mr.. Toombs what is your understanding OF
the Democratic policy
Mr.. T-"That all these reconstruction acts
as they are called, these schemes of deluslon'
of villainy, and of tyranny, shall no longer
curse the statute book nor Cypress the Tree
people of the country n-Speech IN atlanta,
July 49,
Frankly spoken, Robert, but we should like
something more explicit. You have heard Ten
Hamptons testimony. What Is your own Opih-
ion of the Democratic policy
Mr.. T-"That these so-called Governors and
Legislatures which have been established in
Our midst shall at once be made to uacdte The
Contention at Nelr- York appointed Frank Blair
especially TO Dust hem."-Spcech at atlanta.
Then, Robert, you believe in resistance, and
that Frank should be assisted i'll his work
Mr.. T-lRathcr vaguely, but with out-crop-
ping, unmistakablc meanngl "The principle
that Justice shall rule that all tyranny Is llle-
GAL that it ought to be resisted, and that resist
ance TO such is obedience to God, is the voice
of nature, and of natures God ringing through
all climes of all countries, proclaiming to man
kind that wrong can never be sanctioned by
! force"
! Here is Howell Cobb, whose speech we pub
lished recently, and the spirit of which we are
content with summing up in this extract:
"Tbe doors are wide OPEN wide enough, broad enough
TO receive every white Georgia. unless YOU should
discover him coming to you creeping anu crawihg
mercy They have dhonored themselves anu sous.l 20
the male of social aud political society Leave them to
wallow in their mire and NTH Nopody MN enYf
reach forth my hand to take them up they will die In
! their natural element. Laughter aud applause
! Could language be palmer than this Cen
| Blair proposes to destroy the Government
while Gen. Cobb, who commanded the stock
AIDES of AndersOnyille, is to be assigned to the
congenial work of determinations Is. H. Hill
is another witness. We propose to detaln him
q little longer:
"But we have party organized a strong and
rect principles for its platform. They have taken the
field aud from Maine TO California the dread tramp OF
November verdict will be pronounced by the great free
men Of America that shall gladden. the hearts OF patriots
now and forever lchcers ana Wheh inc Pe9y!e sun
have pronounced that verdict the great eoBaIiy crown
win take courage. and hasten 20 their judgement
"Thep. ah them Whdi triH become o, yoh' g ,So.alea
hypocicsl All power to threaten gone treachery eA.
both dead, the Radical party out OF congress now oh
earth will you thus strip naked 70 the gaze OF the WOd
IN all your unhdden inalgy what VIII D5Goe oi you
Hoe iriH you Escape The ddnhmlDn W he5r "a EpJG
There no hell bad enough Tor en- ma' @n rs
10 me SLeer 81 patriots and the dismay Of traitors ,
Yet the VILE the low the corrupt spthe ped]n G
high places noble the valiant, ana the true are
stll left to u.s. ana thrqnghont tse country are M
miserable OF political accidency Matched IN inc
stencil Oh Revolutionary corruption ephemeral eN
tence- renegades from the laws OF Cod aud yolators
~ the laws Of men, trc sffrc y0u rlh nOe s day WI
~ Is Sor1 he ,nen oY he NORTH patriots ereiYwhere
are sending p her 10 hedrej nat THIS Is aud shdH
wd cheers lasting several minutes Men OF pride, men
voice and even children In their play 2rounds are pro
claiming on hilltop aud IN the valley, that tho'e NHo"
God made superior shall never DO degraded
According to Ben therefore, the men whom
Good made superior are to have a Union that
he fancies or "nO Union at all" This is his
understanding Of the Democratic platform, and
"a n preparatory step he makes this proclaim
atom
zone thing you must do for the protection OF your
children and or yourselves anu LOT the immigration ol
yOnr honor affirm IL and i want II heard III is gong
To be the law OF this country and law more rrepcaaDe
than OF the Modes and Persians Not one man
that daes record his vote for the inequality and yassaage
OF the southern states and the degradation OF m own
Georgia. ia the South. nor or hereafter, Cres OF
Nevcr llf have not got the power 70 make the laws
for General Government, or for society thank God
re ran at least pass iaics for homesieads My
mother and my sisters and my dear young ladles-ior
brother OF every in Georgia and the son OF every
mani charge YOU this day You honor your children,
terty urrer suffer a single ndre renegade that votes for
tho Vassaage these States and the disgrace OF your
vo,p GmiIy Cries q Good That's right Hnrrah oe
You condemn tho poor victim TO the pententiary VINO
steals a horse 500, and yet these miserable vaga-
bonds have sought To bargain away tha you
have You scorn the crminal-he man that mas S9ateu
fabess TO every law of Heaven and OF earth and have
used every to sell you to those that hate you
This is the spirit that murdered Ashburn
mt midnight in his bed-that led to a riot in
New-Orleans worse than the massacre at Fort
" Pilowr-that has generated the Ku-klux
Klan-that has made Texas holland COM
PEELED two years of military occupation and
domination in the South. 1t now proposes to
lay violent hands upon the Constitution and the
reconstructed Union, to destroy the fruits of
victory, and to bring us back, as Wade Hamp-
ton expresses it, "to the Union and the Const-
ton as they existed before the war; Could
words be plainer7 Could o purpose be more
evident or more natural7 Gen. Hampton fought
through many bloody battles for this result
why should he not accept it from Seymour and
Blair7 In 1860 Democracy meant the eternity
of Slavery; in 1854 it meant that the war and
emancipation were failures; in 1868 it means
that treachery and surrender shall undo the re-
suits of the war, aud bring upon us anarchy,
unrest, persecution in the South, Punishment of
the loyaists, prescription of Union men, the tri-
umph of the slave power, and the perpetuation
of the slave interest They call it reaction
and assert that they mean peace. We call il