The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-02-08

| calllng COnstitutlonal convention,
delivered in the Hall Of the House on
January 25th:
"You have departed from every prin-
ciple OF free people on earth. After
having distinguished yourselves upon
every field of battle from Gettysburgh
to the Gulf, you men Of the South have
become another people. IL is sad-it
makes me heart sick-but il is the
truth You have become another peo-
pie. You suffer indignities to-day that
two years before il was put upon you,
you thought you would have died first.
You have gone on in silence. You
have let the alien and the foreigner
come here and gather with the nigger,
the carpet-bagger, and the worst thing
OF all the things the world ever saw,
the scallawag- contamination OF
all villiany. lCheers. / can respect
the poor negro. He has many good
qualities, and 1 like him. / can have
some respect for the arpet-bagger.
He comes down with his carpet sack,
and says he is here TO make all he can
in whatever way he can. He has loose
morality, but there is some manhood
in il. But when / come to the SCALA
wag-they1l have 10 dig deeper in hell
TO get place for him. Laughter and
cheers. Now, when they got together
here, what did they do? They said We
must perpetuate our power and We will
| fix q government which they can't
change in twelve years. / have no OBJ
lection TO judge staying there for life
on good behaying-but no such men
as they put there" Laughter and
applause.
OF the first Legislators elected under
the new constitution, aud OF his mar
tyred self, he said
"We got a good many honest fellows
into the first Legislature, but i will
tell you how We got them there. i will
tell you the truth. The newspapers
don't tell il to you We got them there
by carrying the black vote by intimida-
tion and bribery [Laughterl And /
helped TO do it! Applause. / would
have scorned the people il they had
not done i'll And L will buy them as
long a, they put beasts to go TO the
ballot-boxl [Cheersl No man should
be given the elective franchise who has
not the intelligence to use il properly.
The rogue should not have il, for gov
ernment is made to punish him; the
fool should not have it, for government
is made to take care OF him. Now,
these miserable wretches-the Yankees
have injected 5000, 900 OF savages in
to the stomach OF our body polite, and
the man who says he accepts negro
suffrage, / say, accurssd be hei Icheers
will accept everything; / will accept
Grant and empire, before accept snch
Democrat! Applause. The poor
| ignorant negro-talk OF him governing
you and mel 1t takes tho highest or
der OF intellect TO govern the people,
and these poor wretches talk Of govern
| ing u.s. Why, they cant perpetuate
their own negro power. In the coun-
ties where they were the majority they
did not preserve their power and per
petuate their rule. My remedy helped
us to break that up. We carried them
with us by bribery and intimidation.
/ advised it and paid my money for it.
| Applause. You all know it but won't
say il. But will say it, for / fear no
man, and am prepared to render an ac-
count to none but the Great Judge, be-
fore whom / must in n few years, for
my enemies have thought my services
TO my country so great that they have
done me the honor 10 exclude me from
again serving my people. / contest
that honor with our chief Mr.. Davis.
/ am Just as good as he is, and he 10 no
better than / am. demand that they
shall place me beside him. / thank
them for it. Laughter. 1t is very
few things that-I have to thank them
for. but do thank them for that.
penss, and shall ask our represents
tives to demand it for me, for fought
for il and to bring it about. 1 am,
believe, the only living secessionist to
day in the State OF Georgia. Laughter
"This constitution is thievish thing
and robs the people. The larges
county has the most representatives
no matter whether it is full OF gophers
or men. Laughter. That's what
the matter with Hannah, now. Re
nswed laughter. i don't want repre-
sentation based on population alone
we never before had it so in Georgia
IL was always based upon population
and territory, and if you have a conven
tion / can make you a constitution b,
which the people will rule and the mig
ger will never be heard OF. Cheers.
How shall we do that? / will no
give you any rule. The newspapers
the yenal press--would misrepresen
me TO the public. They are the pei
! sons who have said we will have th
, convention next year. and then ha'
written letters from Washington-wri'
Ten in their own Offices. have u
, doubt-saying il would hurt us in be
. ing reconstructed, and hurt the part
: in the elections. Why, Arkansas,
, poor, weak little State, made one an
, nobody objected. North Carolin
r made one and went in; Alabama la
! made one and gone in. Why shoul
: We hesitate and follow the advice {
!, these men, who, like the magneti
, needle. would tremble into place? AT
, plause.l There is no end TO their fals'
: hoods. They say the people don
Q want it, Who dares say so? VIII
; demagogue in these halls will CON
: and face me and say so? 1 am one I
o the people. A sure enough on
: Laughter. II the people don't wal
j. it they can vote 10 down. Why don
Q you put il 10 the people? = You don
9 want them TO say. There are interes
and men and corporations feeding upc
= the industries Of the people who do M
Q want them TO say. You may drive n
o from among you, but with my last m
I latest strength / will speak for al
:, raise the flag OF the people. Applause
70 "LET THE PEOPLE sPEAK.
" Let the people speak for themselye
" Yon will never be here any more; th'
o don't send your kind back. Isha
y watched the two last Legislatures al
p kept a list OF them, and the peop
sr never have sent any OF your kind ba'
10 again. You will never see the light
% these halls again or that 81 per da
" Cheers. You must come mp TO 20
q duty. never stopped when / thong
is my constituents needed thing TO a
8 them about il. voted for my convi
z tions, no matter what they though
Ie Sick people often do not know VIII
" they want, and so il is with the mul
tude. / propose that the people
j. called together. There are not me-
u than DOZEN Radicals in the Hou
80 and one or two il the Senatc-like
st tailor Keeps wooden one for sign-pos
r Laughter Nor is the day Of sail
tionl They talk about the President
election-what have We got 10 do W