The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-06-22

South is awakening under his inspiration
and the tempest is brewing. The follow
ing passages in his late speech at Atlanta
will be read with interest by those who
imagine that there is any sincerity in the
democratic professions of new de
parture."
TYRANNY AND WRONG.
There are many things that might
say to you to night, my friends, but which
| feel it would be imprudcnt for me to
utter. If | should speak to you of the
past | should speak of memories that are
sad. If I should speak to you of the
present it would be to recount tale OF
tyranny and wrong that we have not the
power to redress, and under which, there
fore, it is more manly and noble for US to
fold our arms aud suffer with quiet and
patient dignity. If | speak of the future,
then, | am liable to be misrepresented,
and you held responsible for every specula-
ton that | may chance to utter. But,
my friends, as | stand here to night and
look upon your kindly, honest faces, |
feel that there are few plain words that
may be received by you as the expression
of my opinion in regard to the future
Then, say, despair not of your liberty.
| despair not of the triumph of liberty.
believe that truth will live eternally,
and that wrong cannot always endure.
HE WANTS PEACE.
Peace is what we hope for, peace we
desire, and peace we will have. |
have nothing to say to you to night of
politics, and, my friends, | hope you have
nothing to do with them. You have
political power, aud it exercise is only
postponed until the coming of that event
which certainly anticipate-the restora-
tion of your constitutional rights. Ap-
plause Let US, then, stand still and
quietly await Developments The men of
the North, like yourselves, love their Gov
the men Of the North have no idea of sur
rendering in their own country those great
bulwarks of constitutional liberty-the
right of trial by jury, the right to elect
their own officers, and the right to de-
termine their own internal policy. And
as soon as their prejudices and hatred
against the South are removed, and they
see that by the unlawful action Of those
in power toward the South these sacred
rights of theirs are in danger of being
invaded, full justice will be done.
HE ACCEPTS NOTHING.
am not ofthose who ''accept the situa-
ton" I accept nothing. Those cant
phrases that we hear so much of about
" accepting the situation and about our
rights having been submitted to the
" arbitrament Of the sword" are but the
excuses of towards. [Applause.] ] [ ad,
NIT that power prevails over truth [ ad
NIT that power is so great that it would
be folly to resist it, and therefore am
in favor, myself, of being acquiescent,
and I advise you to the same course, but
do not admit that our rights have ever
been submitted to the arbitrament of the
sword Who has the power to submit
your liberties to the arbitrament of bat
tie? You never delegated that power to
your representatives /, as your Execu
tive. never claimed it, and never, dying
or living, will I admit it. Applause I
And then, my friends, about this much
talked-of subject of 60 accepting the situa-
tion." You are not called upon to ac-
knowledge that you have done wrong un-
less you feel it.
DON'T BELIEVE DID ANY WRONG,
and therefore I don't acknowledge it
All that a government has right to
claim from any of its subjects is that they
will quietly submit to the law. Liberty
of law is their inheritance, and submis-
sion to the law as long as it is such is
their duty and their obligation, and it
should be their pride. Now, my friends,
having already said more than intended,
it only remains for me to say how happy
| am to see the evidences of prosperity
that now surround you. The first time
that | saw the place where your city now
stands it was little more than a wilder
ness When [ saw it again ] looked up
on blackeued and deserted ruins, upon
the sad wrecks of noble fortunes, upon
desolated hearthstones, and upon a ruined
and strickened people. Your city had
been devastcd and laid waste by an act
of vandalism darker then aught that ever
disgraced the fame Of Turenne. But |
look upon it again to day, and traces of
desoation and destruction are no longer
visible; but in their stead magnificent
structures rise upon every hand to mark
the wonderful advance of improvement,
prosperity, and material greatness | re-
joice in it, 1t is but the beginning of the
grand era of prosperity that is yet to come,
aud | rejoice to see you going on build
ing your railroads, establishing your manu-
factories, inaugurating new enterprises of
commercial profit, building up your town.
improving your lands and developing the
material resources within your reach
Y ou will thus 60 on increasing until you
become wealthy and powerful. | say |
rejoice in these evidences of assduous,
aorneSt l,hnr in thinoS material hocausn