Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07
ANOTHER SPEECH FROM GENERAL
GORDON, OF GE0aGIA.

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statesman Of Georgia, are always re-
spected by the American people. His
speeches in congress and in New Hamp-
shire, pending the election last spring,
attracted much attention. General
Gordon is recognized as representa-
tive man of the reconstructed nation
ality, and everything that falls from
hislips has an important bearing. Gen.
eral Gordon made speech in Ala
bama, few days since, from which we
make the following extract.-Memphis
Appeal.
Seeing many colored men present, he
then turned to them and asked: Who
is it that for the sake of retaining their
hold on power poison the minds of the
colored men against their former mas
ters and friends, and with false PROM
ises control their votes and keep up
contentious and strife between the
races2 Who is il that in the guise of
kuklux, murder the colored man i'd the
darkness of fmidnightandherald abroad
the infamous crime as the deed oflaw-.
less Democrats and true southern men,
in order to keep alive the fires of an
imosity, knowing their lease of Office
depends upon the continuance of un-
friendly feelings between the sections?
The Radicals. He then told the color
ed men no longer to be deceived. You
have had Democratic rule here in Ala
bama, and they have robbed you Of
none of your rights. Here the inter-
ests of the white man and the colored
man are identical good government
for one is good government for the
other; the same sun shines above the
black man and the white man, and the
genial showers water alike the soil of
the one and the other; the same God
rules above them both, and they could
live together in peace but for the Rad
icals who antagonize the races. Ke
called upon them to pause, consider,
selves f1 s. rdTee men, and to suffer them
polls as dumb-driyeni" eatfaf t6 the
slaughter; for the time, ignorance and
vice may hold sway, but as certainly as
that God reigns and rules the earth
truth will ultimately triumph and in
telligenee reign, not to the injury Of
the colofed man, but for the common
veal of all; and here alone Is safety
for the colored man. He said that as
an excuse for the perpetration of many
of the outrages which had been heap
ed upon the people of the south, the
Radicals gave out that we were DIS
Loyal-and pray disloyal TO toh0t2 To
the Radical party Ito wrong and OF
pression-to corruption in high places
to robbery and plunderl Aye to be
loyal now, one must not only believe
Grant to be a statesman and Beast But
ler an honest man, but that Henry
Ward Beecher Is an innocent, perse-
cuted sainti He concluded by stating
there were but two remedies for the
disease that now affiicts our unhappy
country. Either we must return to
constitutional government, the govern
ment of our fathers, or drift on and on
in this line until we drift into the port
of empire. but, thank God, " he said,
"often the folly and extremity Of rulers,
is the peoples opportunity. Let us re-
main firm to principle-our honor yet
remains. Already we have a pyramid
of glory that rises in beauty and grand
eur toward the heavens, whose summit
now kisses the stars. and is forever
crowned with sacred memories and
deeds of valor. This gives US hope
full outlook. We have faith in the
final triumph of truth and right, and
lce are right. We have hope-hope in
our brave men and true women. OF
all the thoughts that cheer our souls
and fill them with ecstacy, there is
none so sweet or so -consoling as the
thought that we never knew a south
ern born radical woman. Angels OF
mercy, they stood by our dying heroes
and watered their wounds with balny
tears, and, as In the cruci6xion Of
Christ and his burial, with sad hearts
they bowed to what they could not
avert, so now in memory of the eruei-
fxion of liberty, they annually strew
the graves Of our departed heroes with
flowers, and pray for restoration OF
fraternal feelings between all sections
of our common country. Now, by the
memories Of the past; by the love Of
country; by the love of your native
State, of your wives and children, and
by ali your hopes of the future, stand