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them surrender lCS great advantages.
have examined the subject carefully in
all its bearings, and believe it to be the best
and the cheapest that has ever been devised.
You know, we'll enough, that If it was an ex.
travagant system of municipal government,
the Yankees wouldn't touch it with tensfoot
pole They are not given to extravaganza, but
they know what is useful as we'll as the man
that made it, and there is no one who has trav-
eled in the Northern States that will not exc
press his conviction that they have a keen eye
to comfort, and are the most prosperous and
thriving people in the world The very sim
ilarity of our institutions to those of their ma
tive land will be an inducement for thousands
of them to leave their homes and settle among
u.s. We want them. Let them come by
thousands and tens of thousands. There is
room enough for them all.
They of whom l speak, are not peripatet.
ic political missionaries, who "leave their
country for their country good" like Wells
and his carpet-bag incendiaries, but they are
the stalwart sons of Northern farmers and
mechanics, industrious and intelligent who
know the difference between threshing ma
chine and an old fashioned fail-between a
steam saw-mill and a saw.pit, where one
darkey stands up stairs and pushes, and the
other stands in the cellar and pulls. They
will come as Gilbert G. Walker has come: to
buy lands and improve them, to establish
manufactures and to explore the bowels of
the earth for her hidden treasures, and to aid
with capital and enterprise the quick devels
opment of our mighty resources. es,fellow-
citizens, | repeat, and beg you to pass the
word along the line Vote against the dis
franchising and disqualification provisions of
the Constitution. Vote for Walker, and
Lewis and Taylor. Vote for the expurga-
ted Constitution. 1t is no time to dispute
about trifes. When man has the bilious
collie, he will not stop to discuss which is the
more pleasing to the taste-an emetic or
purgative. What he wants is, to get rid of
the misery. He will compromise on the ques-
ton of whether the cause of his distress shall
take short cut upwards, or short cut
downwards
Now, fellow. citizens, the body polite is
liable to disease like the natural body At
this moment the "Old Dominion" the mother
OF States and statesman, is writing with
terrible collie. Numerous animalcules, called
carpet-baggers, are gnawing at the mucous
membrane of her intestines. They must be
elected, Wells at their head, or the old lady
will soon be corpse I recommend as a
medicine, complete and thorough REaIsTRA-
TIoN, the moment the opportunity offers, and
give it as my medical opinion, that on the
9Th day of next July, little after shutdown,
the whole tribe of vermn will have been ex-
PEELED by copious operation, and from that
minute the dear old patient will begin TO
mend. My heart leaps with joy to see that
the progressive press of the State, with
scarcely dissenting voice, have come out
manfully in favor, not only of the Walker
ticket, but of the " expurgated Constitution.
The very best men in the commonwealth at
this moment while am speaking to yon, are
on the hustings in their respective counties,
battling for Walker and the Constitution, as
submitted by the President and the Congress
of the United States. Congress and the
President are in favor of Walker and the "ex-
purgated Constitution" Even the irrepres-
sible Wells has been compelled to bend to
the gathering storm, and comedies that it is
useless to beard Congress and the President
And last, but not least that great and good
man, who gave his all for the " lost cause,
at the command of his sovereign mother
"the hero of an hundred battles"-"the great
est captain of the age"-the man who on the
field of Appomattox had the moral courage to
announce to breathless world, in language
that will go down with his immortal name
to the remotest generation, that, after four
years of arduous service. marked by unsur-
passed courage and fortitude, the Army of
Northern Virginia has been compelled to
yield to overwhelming NUMBERS AND RE-
SOURCES " he, too, is in favor of the Walk.
er ticket, and the eXpurgated Constitution
On the field of battle he yielded to overs
whelming numbers and resources, to spare the
useless further effusion of blood and now,
in the civil and political arena, where he is as
modest as he was brave in the field he yields
to the overwhelming force of national feel
ing, and gracefully acquiesces in COMPRESSION
al reconstruction.
Fellow-citizens, glorious future awaits US
if we will but rise to the necessity of the occa-
81 on, and realize the duty of the hour "There
is a tide in the affairs of men which, if taken
at the flood, leads on to fortune" And, as
with men, so it is with nations. Let us float
upon the bosom of the tide that now seems to
favor US.
In conclusion, one word to you, my colored
friends, whose rights are established by the
laws that will hereafter rule the land. Is it
equality before the lao that you want, or is it
superiority ooer the aohste race? The one you
have, and no one seeks to deprive you OF it.
The other you will NEVER get, while grass
grows and water runs. There are FORTY
MILLIONS of Anglo-Saxon blood in this coun-
try. The Africans are less than THREE MIL
LIONS The white population of the United
States is annually swollen by the accession of
thousands upon thousands from Europe.
Your ranks are daily diminishing. "Bloodis
thicker than water"
No race has ever yet been able to stand be-
fore the Anglo-Saxon race and your race is
the humblest race that is known to history.
In a contest OF races, what would be your
fate? You would be swallowed up, my col
ored friends, and lost, like three-cent piece
in bushel of silver dollars. Let us act with
a view to mutual interest. Do not throw
down the gauntlet to the white people, who
are willing to live with you in peace and
amity. If you vote to disfranchise the white
people, they will know what you mean by it,
and will remember it, when you would glad
ly have them forget. I will read to you the