Year: 1868

| those who dishonor the memorv OF the dead You
d owe ~ 70 the yas you owe It to your own children
THIS day and all days and for all time to come the
FEELING and spirit OF adherence with which you


words that may write infamy upon the forehead Of
these men that they may travel through earth de-
| the devil himself. They may seek their final con-
| genial resting place under the mudsllls OF that
ancient institution prepared for them from the be.
! ginning OF the world.


! SOMETHING FOR NORTHERN MEN TO TELL WHEN THEY
| GO HOME FROM THE SOUTH.


Fellow citizens, being In counseling and advising
class OF our fellow citizens, class Of whom have
not asked M 1ayors heretofore They have been among
nor IN sn Of the N o.


ing the simple yestments OF private life. Now the
time has come when many Of these are to leave US
which they have played to return no more forever.
Now Of these gentlemen personally know nothing,
bear message from the people Of the South to the
people OF the North You have been here for three


e your peope you bas su to your homes ns
| found our land one general plain OF DESC
IaSaa Iaon; .,,a the .. ashes stand or stood then
where thls beautiful city now stands. You found
| our people overwhelmed by numbers, q conquered
people, If you please but brave and generous peo
the wrongs that have been done this people. You
nave seen their old men and their young men torn


labor and occupation without warrant or authority
OF constitutional law: You have seen them carried
10 ihe aungeOn and from the dungeon to the courts
which had no jurisdiction under the constitution.
Tell the people of the North these things when you
CO. Tel them too, you have seen the polls opened,
you nave seen Ge0rgla's nObest sons born upon the
soil and reared under her institutions, sons whom
she has delighted to honor, sons whom You have
ceived with welcoming arms in all the Northern
States-y0u have seen these sons, upon whose char
acter not one single blot rests you have seen them
drive driven from the polls Tell them that. Tel! them
unhappy unfortunate and deIuded negro taken, not
by the voice Of persuasion and of argument but by
a VA a nnfQ QrtH syov astct
you have seen him go and m up that ballot box that
formerly received the votes OF the good and true
men OF Georgia Tell them that you have stood here
In her legislative halls. Grayheaded fathers have
told you that these seats were once filled by the
her Troup her Forsyth her Berren, her Lumpkn,
her Wayne-her great and good men in the
days that are past. Around me here l see the
grayheaded fathers of this land who once filed
these seats. Tell them whom you saw there on yes
terday True, some of her sons, good and true men,
are there to try to save and their State from
wrong; but tell them that the seats of Troup and
Clark were filed by two negroes who could not write
their names Tell them chat my own old county OF
Clark-these men Will recognize the name when /
speak OF Clayton, Dougherty, Hull and Eope and
%Inoinas % ana, III, ~ ater Gays the brave and gallant
60 10 the North the seats formerly occupied By these
men were filled by illiterate negroes. Tell them
when you go there that in times past you told
thai the good men OF Georgia assembled at her cap
tai to inaugurate her government, these men whose
names have mentioned to yOu but never in oil the
history OF this State was any man. be he good or
bad, placed in that chair, with those insignia Of





Georgia ! care not, gentlemen Of the North, mill
tary and civilians with what preJudices you come
here; care not how passion has been miamed.
These are solemn truths, and 1t Is your duty
honest men to tell The message this day give y0u
Tel them that on the 4th day OF July-a day memor
able In the history OF your c0untry-a day hOnored
and celebrated by the good men OF the landCeorgla
was summoned by the party VINO now rules her
her capital You were here and saw that
scene. Go, ask 1t as a favor. will humble myself
50 far as to beg that the truth may be carried from
yniir pAple
You witnessed that assembly. II was q mass meet
ing OF the radicals OF Georgia. Twenty white men
were there and probably all who deserved the name
OF white men, outside OF spectators. did not reach
quite hall dozen. They were a moGey crowd of
this beneflcent legislation that had brought
the great blessing upon the land. Men STOOD upon
that platform who had been honOred by Georgia.
and addressing that assembly of dark faces and
kinky heads, with not one white man scattered
here or there, calling them ''my couutrymen p
| Wen, II they are his countrymen, let him and his
| countrymen seek more congenial climate


Africa is open to him. and not knowing Joe as well
IA do, the people OF that continent might bid him
come Go, gentlemen Of the North and tell your
people that there was assembled in Georgia-ths
| great and noble old State-that crowd and more
| respectable one works on my plantation every day,
because they work for their daily bread and
| meat, and are respectable compared to the
| set OF worthless creatures whom the radi-
| Gals OF both North and South pretend to
call the people OF Georgia. Tell them that that
the people In whose hands and under whose control
you left this noble old state when you turned 70 ur
back upon me to seek your own homes, and then tell





semblage calling themselves the people OF Georgia.
Come now and stand here by my side. Iwant yon To
cast your eyes over this vast assembly. Come and
look upon those daughters OF Georgia, and, gentle
OF the North, tell meyou have hearts, you have
souls you have In your own states mothers wives
and sisters-l ask you to come here to-day and stand
upon this platform ana look upon our mothers and
SISTERS, and wives and little ones, and tell me
In your heart lis II right and just and proper? Does
your own heart dictate IT, that those women and
children ought TO be under the dominion Of those
negroes thai assembled on the Fourth OF Julyf II
If ia nm
single throb LETT to beat for the people OF the South
come and look upon this picture. Around them you
see old men, denounced they have been as rebels,
but from their youth up they have lived in Georgia.
Their neighbors know them, respect them, esteem
them, love them. Ought these men to be placed
under that negro doninions Ought these men
10 be required TO bow their necks to the yoke
which oppression and despotism have prepared for
thcmf Oh men OF the North, as ye travel homeward,
spread these truths broadcast, aud when You receive
acordial welcome into your own homestead, and
that wife aud mother and daughter impress upon
your lips the kiss o affection and love, remember
beg you, remember the mothers and wives and
daughters OF Georgia. II you cannot feel for them
in that hour then The spirit Of love and aection has
departed from you, never again to be reclaimed.
Tell them that IN the midst OF ali this desoaton, In
the midst Of all these wrongs that there not IN
oil Georgia single daughter that bowed her head
to the yoke. Tell them that our brave men stood
that Kindness and generosity would have won back
the alega OF their hearts, but all the bayonets
tnas ever were MADE IN sne american unon cannot
these men were brave and generous to the last, hat
Ing their enemies, loving their friends and, even II
II mad been necessary, from the scaffod they would
have hurled defiance into the teeth OF their Oppres5
ors. They would have welcomed every noble and
generous heart to the South with cordiaity they
extend alone to those they love. Tell them, more
over, Georgia has home for every true man OF the
North. She has welcome for every true man that
will come TO i've among and with W and be OF u.s.
But sne mas neither true welcome nor false hos
ptality TO oncr to those who to wrong and op
press them, ana when you have told them all this
tell them that In Georgia there was but one
voice, one neart one soul, one spirit. When
you turn your back upon the State, looking
through sll her length and BREADTH upon
her mountains, In her valleys In her cities
In her towns, along the public highways in the pnb.
lie and private workshops, yon dont't leave behind
you one single white radical advocate OF the Chicago
platform VINO was worthy OF the respect and conf
dence oi gentleman. And when you are asked BY
your people what are the views and sentiments and
purposes ot the people OF the South do us the Justice
70 pronounce the charge that we are hostile TO the
Union ana the constitution and that we desire TO re-
new the bitter conflict through which we have iust