Year: 1868

.SS"o ~ ldiTly DeiOfc yOu my lTiclus. f~VHo
can fail to read it right. No man can plead ignor-
ance Not one who heard the exposition to which
you ana have listened this morning not one VINO


mas heard the eloquent voices OF her sons thr0ugnOut
ulis iahd Tor months can plead ignorance hereafter
Inc issue Is made; on the one hand Is continuance
ana aggrayaton Of the wrongs from which she has
so long suffered and Is still suffering, and on the
otner speedy deliverance from the bonds which
nave pound her and the opening OF bright ana pro.
missing future. The path Is Open you are invited to
tread 1t. On the one hand There are darkness and
shadow and gloom, and continued misfortune and
perty and peace Choose you this day between these
TWO offerings made for your free will acceptance.
Ny friends, that great party OF this country
the land. North South, East and West without ref.
erence to past political differences, comes and ten
ders you the guarantees OF that constitution which
was framed by the wisdom and consecrated by the
blood OF your fathers. Come and stand by us. Give
Your support to the men who are pledged to carry
out these principles.


PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.


we nave put candidate before you for the highest
once ~ tne countrv-a man known as u statesman
throughout the land-a man whose record in the
past has been true to those great principles of con-
stutiona right. We have placed before you candl-
General Grant, fought you during the war, but, un-
IKE General Grant ceased to ght you when the war
To to s brave t,nnn m
drawn the sword against me. honor
such a man, and to-day give evidence of
Frank p Blair for Vice President OF the United
States But the man who. after the battle ia over,
travels over the field and with valor cannot COM
mend draws his sword to thrust 1t into each corpse
as he passes along, such man can never command
my respect and II my advice is needed will never
get vote in Georgia. Let the people of the North
understand that we give to Seymour and Blair our
warm and hearty support, with perfect knowledge
on our part that the one In the Cabinet and the other
on the field were fully identified with those who
prosecuted the war against US, and to whose over
whelmfng numbers we finally surrendered. We do
not pretend to say that we support them because
they warred against u.s. but in spite OF IT, believing
as we do, that In restored Union they will extend
t to US those sacred constitutional rights Of which
they are now the chosen and hOnored repre-
sentatives. And this Is all that the people Of
the South ask or expect at the hands Of the people
or the North. These are the men, these are the
pledges, which are offered to you by those whom l
commend to your confidence and support to-day.
On the other hand you are offered for the Presidency
General Grant, have said as much Of him as he
ever said Of himself and therefore he has right to
complain that | have not treated him with proper
Presidency, am not sufficiently informed of his his
tory In order to give you any very satisfactory
e count OF him. Ny opinion is, however if, when In
that he would be candidate for Vice President It
would have run the old lady crazy. 1t is sufficient
to say Of them that they stand before you as the
representatives OF the Chicago platform. That is
condemnation enough But these men, fellow citi-
zens, are Of to-day and will pass away. The prnci-
pies which they represent belong to the future and
viii live long after those who uphold them are for
gotten.


THE CHICAGO PLATFORM


You have before you the great political truths pre-
sented by the democracy OF the country Let us 90
o ior ~ moment i to Chicago and see what was pre-.
offered to you by that convention OF wild and bad
men who placed General Grant and Mr.. Coliax be-
fore the country? | will not stop to discuss the
dOuble-faced resolutions on finance. / come to the
main starting proposition which you are called upon
to give your sanction to- and which most nearly affects
your interests. Fellow citizens, that platform an
nounces to you that white mans government shall
be guaranteed to the people OF the North, but that
pie OF the South do not pretend to quote the lam
guage or the precise words but such are the prin-
cp naHs and & doctrines enancated The rad
they have not denied it by their public men-they
cannot, dare not, deny IT, That platform says that
the negroes OF the South shall be guaranteed and
protected in the exercise of political power the right
OF suffrage the right Of sitting in the jury box, the
right OF holding seats in the Legislature and upon
the bench and that Is all right and proper for You
and for the people of the South that this should be
the case but when asked to put It to the people Of
men OF the East and the Middle States. they sad:-
'.NOi they are entitled to white mans governments
given them by the fathers Of the land from the earliest
organization OF the government; they are the
sons Of the revolutionary fathers who fought
this couutry-by their wisdom adopted the
constitution. They shall have white mans govern
ment; they are worthy Of it, they deserve IT. but for
those rebels down SOUTH those men In Georgia. those
women and children in Georgia. they deserve no
such projections; they shall have guaranteed TO them
no such government" My friends. what think you
OF these men Of the North9 What think YOU OF the
Grants and Coaxes? of the Thad StevensesS the





Chicago and then wrote IL down In cold bood-there
was no passion-there was no eXctement-there
were no war tones sounding throughout the land-
but coolly calmly, passionless they wrote II down
upon their platform, "The people OF the South, you
must submit to negro suffrage, you must submit TO
we reserve the old landmarks of the con-
stitutlon" To-day they defend the policy
which puts these negroes in the Legislature. To-day
that platform saws my friend lpoining to Mr..
Toombs) and myself are properly and Justly excluded
from the right OF suffrage, from the right of holding
0fice; but these negroes are the proper people To
make laws and govern and control this great and
good State OF Georgia.


scALAwAGs AND c,RrEr-BAGaERs.


What think you OF Northern men who are prepared
70 perpetuate TINS great wrong and outrage upon
our peopief Can you say to them, "brofherr" Can
TO your house when they come to your midst either
with the insignia OF Office or In the habment OF pri
vate citzenss Why should they wonder and stand
amazed because we bid them not to the feast when
our friends are Invited to assemble and make merry
amoug themsevess Shall these men, ought
Ss aDan 4s@ to expsGst m psron me
urge It upon you until there shall exist In the heart
and soul OF every son and daughter that walks and
Dreathes her pure air and lives upon her happy soil
this conviction, that these men Of the North-these
Chicago men--these men who call upon you to vote
Grant and Collax, and that Grant and Colfax who
nave endorsed these things, neither worthy OF
your vote, your respect OF your confidence much
less OF your Kindness and hospitality. My friends,
pate II they were our friends they could not doubly
wrong as; and there beat In their bosom one single
xndT rn,S emotion Tor the people Of the South they
s, tne world OF your unworthiness and the contempt
which they feel for you. Enemies they were
In war.enemes they continue to he in
peace. In war We drew the sword and
bade them defiance; in peace we gather
up the manhood Of the South and raising the banner
OF constitutional equality, and gathering around il
the good men OF the North as well as the south we
% huri into their teeth to-day the same defiance and
pia THEM come on to the struggle We are ready for


n they are. But, my countrymen n those are the
,eenngs which rise In our bosoms in reference to
these men OF the North-thesc men who have no
bond OF union with you; these men who never trod
upon your soil unless II was to plumber ana to rob-
these men who know not these women and these
chdren these men who have never worshpped at
your affairs who never communed with the good
men and women OF your state around that
altar erected to the living God-if these are
your feelings towards strangers in blood and
sympathy and association what can be your feelings
toward those men OF Georgia who travelled the se
hundreds OF miles TO meet these men at Chicago who
sat upon the bench with them, who went into the
council chamber with them, and who there Joined
their voices and united their hearts IN pronouncinr
that the men whom they have LETT behind them-the
men VI Georgia who had honored them overmuch