The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-20
COLLECTOR MACKEY sEREMADKD.
Speeches Another such Victory fsr
Republicans ~ that in Virginia and
Republics nisna IL Uadone thinks tho
Collector - The Collector Intends to
Expose tho Traitors to Republication
and to send them Back 70 their Orig
inaI Mud.

About ten O'Clock last night, b,tHeen twelve
and fifteen hundred Republicans Of Charles
ton, headed by two bands of music, proceeded
to the residence of DR.. A. G. Mackey and gave
him serenade. After the bands had played,
sHail to the Chief" '.Home Again." and o few
other airs, loud calls were made for DR.. Mackey
who, upon appearing, was greeted NTH cheers.
A. J. Ran ier, Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, then delivered an
address OF welcome in the name Of the
Republican party Of the city and State. BE
assured Dr.. Mackey that the hearts of all true
Republicans beat, ss OF old, responsive to his
OVID; assured him of their sympathy, and de-
clared that Republicans saw, in his removal
nom Office. the initial step to The establishment
of Conservatism in this State; that the Repub-.
lican party Of South Carolina would triumph in
the future as in the past; that it would make no
surrender to Walkerism, but, like the loval and
gallantr crew that engaged the Confederate mon
itor, sf it must fallit will go down with its col
ors flying, and with every gun ringing defiance
to it's enemies" He expressed the confident
belief that the time was not far distant when the
Republican party OF South Carolina would DEM
onstrate to the natiol at large their conf
dence in DR.. Mackey, and their grateful ap-
probation of his distinguished services and
safferings for the cause that it upholds. He
said that the voice, of Republicans here may
be feeble with the administration, but the men
who would betray them would find that their
votes are potent.
DR.. Mackey responded by thanking the
speaker and the assembled citizens for their
generous welcome, which he attributed, not to
his personal merits. but to fidelity to the prin.
ciples OF Republicanism. He said that he
valued this grateful tribute OF esteem from
his political friends and associates in his
native city more than the gitteripg bauble
OF public Office; that his oficiSl relations
with the Administration were not yet for
mally dissolved, and hence he did not think
this time proper for him to- present his
views fully in regard to it's recent acts as
they affected himself, but that he would, at
no distant day, lay befre his fellow-Repub-
licans a chapter Of political history, which
would show that senators and representatives,
whom they and he had elevated to power, had
basely betrayed their trust. On that occasion
he would spare no traitor; that they bad
taken certain men from the mire to place
them in exalted positions. and the people
whom they had betrayed would coasign them
to their original mud. They would realize
these traitors-the truth OF the old adage,
"Whoso diggeth pit shall fall into it." He
concluded by denouncing the covert attempt
to organize third party here; declared that
Conservative Republlcanism is Democracy in
disguise; and said that we shall have no Vr-
ginia in South Carolina; that he knew no Re-
publicanism but Radical Republicanism, and
that as Radical Republican be would stand
or fall.