Year: 1868

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the true one) my primary allegiance
was TO The State. When / had former.
ly taken an oath 70 support the Consti.
tation Of the United States, I under.
s.ood it to bind me ouly when my State
remained in the Union but ifshe with
drew (Which [ believe she had the
tleht to do, fer just cause, according to
'nc necessity Of the case,) that She


must be the Judge. | did not feel that


had violated my oath when 7 WENT


with my State, and since that time-
AND the one which the President e
the United States gave me was Vow ~
different. He required me to taxa .
very different oath. l was sworn to
support not only the Constitution Of
the United States, bit the Union of
the States. When I did that I .ban-
doned the doctrine of secession for I
cannot support the union of the States
and encourage secession from the Un-
ION: The Virginia and Kentucky reso-
latlons that included that doctrine, a, l
understood them, has always been the
very platform upon which the democra-
cy has stood. But when the platform
=, was knocked from under my party, I
had nothing left to take hold on. As
4 understood the doctrines of the: De-
mocracy,:they We're sovereignty aad the
right to secession. The sword has es-
t; taollshed b different doctrine, and hence
It is that | am no longer bound by par
ty:alleSlence to the Democratic party.
b The Hamiltonian and Websterian
construction of the Constitution has
been established by. the sword. have
acqulcsccd in that, and l find the Re-
publican party standing on tie platform
TO- day that has been abandoned by the
democratic party, that naturally leads
me- into the Republican party. I know
TINS = q very unpopular doctrine in the
South, but I believe in the true doc-
tr'ne:' But let me tell you, MIR. Presi-
dent and gentlemen, that there are
many white men in the South-there
are large numbers of original Demo-
Gratis in the South-therc are large
numbers of original secessionists in the
South who to-day stand as firmly by
the Republican party, and will support
the Great Captain OF the age-Gen.
Grant. Our Democratic friends that
have opposed negro suffrage and de-
nounced it as an outrage upon manhood
and upon society, and yet in the late
elections there, the negro who would
vote the Democratic ticket was really a
very respectable fellow! ard a white
man who voted the Republican ticket
was scall'wag and a traitor. They
tell us there ''you establish negro su-
premacy in the South" Not SO. Not
SO. While we grant to the colorcd pco-
pie all their rights, civil and political,
VIC do not expect them to be our mas
ters. Much as you have seen in the
papers on that subject, it is not so. In
the State Of Georgia, for increase, when
those are included within the Constitu-
tlonal Amendment, and who will be
voters. although they have no right to
hold office under our constitution, come
to the ballot box, there are twenty
thousand majority Of white men there.
We have the advantage of education
We have the advantage in experience,
and We claim that We have superiority
of race. Tell me not then that the
lick people Of Georgia can rule Geor-
sla when they are twenty thousand IN
the minority, and We have all these ad-
van'ages. This is said with view of
prejudicing the Republican party North
and South. It is not so in other States.
even where the blacks are in majority.
If cur white race act properly in this
matter, there will be no difficulty of this
SORT.


Just i'll conclusion, let NE say while
we have hard f. ht in Georgia. if you
will give US the fruits Of the victory we
have lately won in desperate fight,
Cs. we expect to carry Georgia for Gen.


Allow me one word before I take my
scat. have said if we do, you must
give us the fruits Of our victory. We
have elected our Governor We have
adopted our Constitution by large ma
jority of both branches of the General
Assembly; yet our Governor is not in
augurated, our Legislature is cot called
together We desire that Mr.. Stevens
bill that passed the House Of Represen-
ta;ives the other day, be slightly amend
ed in the Senate, and there passed. The
amendment We desire is this that the
Senate Of the United States amend that
bill to allow the Governor elect-Gov.
Bullock-to convene his Legislature
on ten days notice. Let him be inau-
gurated, and they will adopt the con-
stitutional amendment, and then let
them elect Senators, AID receive US in
to Congress, and you give US control of
the State Government and its patron
age, which We fought for and won, and
which we must have if we succeed in
this conteSt