Year: 1867

utdui anu We must CONSENT 70 what We cannot
resist" But John Hampden would not con
sent. He resisted He was tried as crimi-
nal for resisting and was condemned But
what was the sequel The people finally as
serted their power Charles and his ministers
persisted. The very judges that condemned
were themselves tried and condemned as erin.
inals, and the very officers, even the sheriff.
who executed the orders Of Charles and his
court were sued by the citizens for damages.
and had TO pay nearly million dollars for ex.
ecutng the processes Of a void, uneonstitution.
al law For a time traitors held the power
and trampled on rights, but vengeance came
and perpetual infaIny followed.


So Cromwell and his Parliament violated
the Constitution, and though they also -four.
ished for a season, they too we're overthrown.
So James III trampled on the Constitution
and had to fly from his kingdom, a fugitive for
life, In all these struggles good men. for
time. suffered and bad men for time ruled
but the English race have never vet failed 10
rescue their Constitution from the power both
OF traitors and fanatics


/ tell you the American people viii not al
ways be deceived They will rise in defense
Of their Constitution, and traitors will trenble
They who rallied three millions strong to de.
feat what they considered an armed assault ON
the Constitution and Union, will not sleep till
a few hundred traitors from behind the mask
ed battery Of Congressional Oaths and dseep
tive pretensons Of loyalty shall utterly batter
down the Constitution and Union forever
warn you, boastful, vindiotiye Radicals, by
the history of your own fathers, by every in
stinet of manhood, by every right Of liberty
and every impulse of Justice. that the daV Il
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outraged and betrayed people. Applause
Go on eoniscatingl Arrest without warrant
or probable cause destroy habeas corpus de.
ny trial by jury, abrogate State governments;
dehle your own race, and Hlppantly say the
the Constitution is dead On, on, with your
work Of ruin, We hell born rioters In sacred
things but remember for all these things the
people will call you to judgment Prolonged
applause All what an issue you have made
foo yourselves Succeed aad vou destroy the
Constitution Fail, and You have covered
the lend in mourning Succeed, and YOU
bring inlamy upon yourselves and all tie eoun
try Fail and you bring iniamy upon vour
selves and all your deluded followers Sue
coed and you are the periured assassins Of
liberty Fail and YOU are defeated despised
traitors forever He who aspire to be Radical
ENhEA AVlN hAAA lufAE-N III btniEiN paint Dc
fore you this day your destiny. fUnbounded
applause You are but coYards and knaves.
and the time will come when YOU will call up.
on the rocks and mountains to fall on you and
the darkness TO hide you from an outraged
people. APPLAUSE


Does It do you good to trample on the Con
stitution-deceive the negro and ruin the coun.
try? 1t may be sweet now, but tell you that
the sulphurOus fires Of public iniamy will nev
er be quenched on your spirits. fApplausc
| / pity you from my soul Would that the
time had never come when had to stand On
Georgas soil and thus talk to Gcorgians. A
struggle is coming It may be long and
bloody one, and you who advocate this wicked
scheme will perish in it, unless the people now
arouse and check its e0nsumation Let every
true Nv loving man rally at once to the stan.
dard Of the Constitution Of his country ZAP
plause, Come. Do not abondon your rights


Defend them Talk Of them, and if need be.
before tiOd and the country, fight and die for
them. Enthusiastic and prolonged applause
Do not talk or think Of secession OF disunion.


but come up TO the old platform OF our fathers
the Constitution. Let all North and South,
come and swear before God that We will abide
BY It IN good faith. and oppose everything that
| violates it. The man loves the Constitution
now, and is willing to live and die for it. Is my
friend and brother though he come from the
frozen peak Of Mount Washington and the
man who i trampling upon it is my enemy and


shall hold him 50. though he come from the


sunny cline of the orange and the cotton


bloom. That is my issue


! O, how sorry creature is the man who ear,
not stand up for the truth, when the country
Is IN danger There never was such an oppor,
tunity as now exists for a man to show OF what
stuff he is made How can you 60 about the
street and say all is wrong but cannot help
Ih| Ion want courage my friend You are
a coward You lack eourasB 10 tell the truth.


and would sell your birthriSIt for tempora,


ry mess Of potage even fir a little bit Of a
liudgeship, or a Bureau OH er's place


But some one says How viii you resist it,
first by not approving 1t lfeverybody would


do that it would be resisted 50 far as We ara


concerned But the so-called Congress has
provided cover for itself in advance. nnder


which TO hide from the odium attaching 10 this


scheme II has provided that you can vote


either for or against convention. and again


vote for OF against whatever constitution it


may frame 1t is sought to make US responsi.


ble for whatever may be the consequences and


relieve them After while when you become


alarmed at the results, they will say "Wedd


not do this We only gave you chance and


You did it"


But if We defeat this it is said military rule
will continue. Certainly ly--until wicked men


shall be driven from power But let it be SO.


General Pope seems TO be gentleman, and
infinitely prefer his rule to the rule Of such
men as You will get under this scheme Be.
sides the new government, if inaugurated, will
{ not BE- able 10 live a day without military pro


lection, II is safer to be governed by power
than treachcry


Perhaps you will think | have overdrawn
} the picture Of the fearful consequences of ae-
| ceptiug this scheme recollect an incident
= which occurred over six yearsago. when was


urging the people Of Georgia not to seeede. be-.
. cause the country thersby would fall into the
5 hands Of Radicals. and the predicted war and
G its attendant suae ings as the result--thongl
n then deemed visionary would be almost
e ashamed now to read my remarks Of that day
S my picture would be so tame and 80 far short
h Of the dreadful reality that has followed A
{ very prominent gentleman replied to me, nrg
# ing that there would be no war, and to prove
/ il, he read an article from Horace Greeley


Tribune and old Ben Wades speech deelarin,
e the South had right to seeede, and if shl
e chose to exercise that right they should be al
r lowed to do 50 in peace. He then said tha
d Greeley and Wade were better friends of thi
is South than |, who was born here, for / wa
y trying to frighten the Southern people from
: the exercise Of right which they conceded
a and they were repyss ntatiye men Of the
rlpa IT, What con 4 say in repy2 coul
| only tell him the truth--that these men onl
i desr,d to encourage the South to disunon 70
Is their wicked purposes 10 destroy the Constiiu
u ton and that great government cannot b
N dissolved withN blool and what have Gre,
m ley and Wade done since that time and no,
OF | ADVISE you to reject this scheme Of fore,
a fraud and deceit which Congress has devise
s, Ii yGu Of your own lrte will submit 10 /
or YOU will see the consequences Of u


le advise yon 70 register There is no Al,
q honor in that It is arming youg'ell with a
rs import n loyer 10 be welded against SIC NJ
s. firous heme but don't vote for the eonvei
IS tion-don 20 for anything whatever which
lp an assent to the scheme but Be against Il
n every step Never 60 half way with 4 traitt
u mo- comproms with treason and robbery.
MS they hold q convention vote against ratha
i'll ton vote against an their mcasures and nc
Cd an indiet ortry ono vha, under such void al