The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-06

i nave felt thai THIS oattl6s WOulQ Do Wou
not so much upon calculation Of chances as
mon sentiment and feeling. This country is
too great and too young to surrender up all
her liberties. If Congress seizes upon the
Supreme Court and eabsorbs all the power OF
the Union, then the struggle is lost. When
the news of dle battle Of Marengo reached
England, Mt Pit, who was then Minister,
said .YoD mar close up The map o. Europe
for for twenty IA Il @ soo ,'as 0 hensS nssosS Is
around us and de With our liberties gone. But
this do not dread, for Ebeheye that We shall
drive out The worse than Goths and Vandals
who NOW sitsin Washington and go regenerate
the governments Ours are the men to do it,
and do it they Nin. siCneers:l $50
Son. Hampton has been misrepresented by
the Eadlcais, as yen know, and as ne has
snown. They dread b var who @ Izr know s;,Sss pest
not in the field, but h the Supreme Court, and
before the Executive. sOur programme Will
not involve the raising Of an arm or the draw
inc OF sword. NoIonger. shall our great chief
tains. ride at the head Of their hosts, but we
wiz peacefully elect majority IN the United
States House Of Representatives. we we w1 eject
mere majority rule Is hard indeed to bear. Let
us. then, appeal TO the people to come up and
swear obedience again, not to thegoyernment
but to the constitution. "a voice, show about
Jos Brown?nJ he isson the other side OF the
river, and on this day Of rejoicing, and IN this
grand contest, ne cannot stop to think OF so
small an object. daughter and cheeIs.]
The Reconstruction acts are but false gods
with bodies of brass and feet Of clay. They
have no conference, and under the pounding
blows OF the Democracy will fall into the dust
of oblivion. say to you, then, be OF good
cheer, and look for grand result. From the
Pacific comes the tidings that the whole Pacific
coast Will be carried by Seymour and Blair.
New York will do its duty, and in Pennsylvania
down to the rescue Of, constitutional liberty.
Now We have none who would be our friends
against us as was the case in the war. Pendle-
ton, the great statesman, is already stumping
the West for us; and when we have succeeded,
all the ends Of the earth shall bless our triumph,
and they in Europe who have despaired Of re-
publican institutions will say, as they raise their
riehted herself. The Republic is safe, and JUS
tice and @ Constitutional Liberty" [Long con-
tnued eheering.] -
SPEECH OF JUDGE A1pRIcH.
Mr., Finley then introduced the Hon. a. P.
Aldrich, who spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: greet yoq now with
especial pleasure, for bring you 'glad tidings
OF great iey.n The friends Of constitutional
liberty have marshalled their hosts from one
end Of the country to the other. In New York
Twas received. with great cordiaity by all class
es, and I felt that their professions were true.
Faith and hope revived, and determined to
exert all my energies to restore Q constitutional
government to this down-tfodden land. The
battle Of freedom was once more to be waged.
and the friends Of the constitution are aroused
from Maine to Georgia, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. Be, then, ofgood cheer, for the day ol
delyerance is at hand.
In 1856 when told you in this same village
that all was not lost, you would not believe me-
You were all cast down and never expected tc
rise again. I tried to raise your courage, but
timid counsel Of our leaders, our grand ole
/. State wonld haze been this day completely
Africanized. Thank Godl the people have beer
ahead Of their leaders, and have never believed
that their sacred cause was wholly lost. Then
faith is now rewarded. A great party is nov
relieve our country from the yoke Of the op
pressor.
regard it as cheering sign that our lead
ers we're received so cordially by the fighting
men Of the North, who have no respect fol
Butler, Stevens, Sumner, and their crew-nt
diers, we're in the front fighting for the Union
while Beast Butler was three miles in the rea
picking up spoons. Laughter AID grea
cheering They will not be robbed Of th
fruits Of their victory, and will not allow tel
States, which they fought to keep in the Union
to be kept out OF it any longer. Even Il th
Radicals carry by fraud every Southern State
the msjorities in the North and West will cleo
Seymour and Blair. New York is sure 70
eighty Thousand majority, and Ohio, Pennsyl
Yania, Indiana and Illinois will follow, and tn
Radicals will be beaten so badly as never to b.
heard Of more.
when, in the New York Convention, I heart
the shsuts that hailed the calling Of the names
Of the Southern States, I was glad; but whel
the name OF Carolina was hailed with shouts
until the welkin rang, it was the proudest mo
ment Of, my Life. I felt that the constitution
would be- restored by the only party which
ever stood by the constitution. The man il
the Sonth who would throw suspicion on tn
Democratic party is traitor.
When the Democrats are successful, We shal
no longer becalled '.rsbel" and ''traitor." Th
Badcals now are the rebels and traitors, ant
the military despotism they propose to estab
bsh, and II win be by Grants own men that ",
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