Year: 1867

HcVor yct Ihicu 10 rescue their Constitution
from the power both Of traitors and ianat.
les. ''"'


Itcll you the American people will not
always be deceived. They will rise III dc.
fence Of their Constitution, and traitors will
tremble. They who rallied three million
strong to defeat what they considered on
armed assault on tho Constitution and
Union, will not sleep until few hundred
traitors from behind the masked battery Of
Congress al oaths and deceptive pretcnsions
Of loyalty shall utterly batter down the Con.
stltution and Union for ever. l warn YOU,
boastful vindictivc Radicals, by the history
OF your own fathers, by every instinct Of
manhood, by every right Of liberty and
every impulse Of justice, that tho day is
coming when you will feel the power Of an
outraged and betrayed people. IApplaus.l |
Go on confiscating Arrest without warrent
or probable cause; destroy hdJus corpus;
defile your own race, and Aippantly say tho
Constitution is dead On, on with your work
of ruin, yc hcll-born rioters in sacred things
But remember for all these things the people
will call you to judgment. Prolonged ap-
plause.l All! what an issue you have
made for yourselves. Succeed and you
destroy the Constitution! Fall, and you
have covered the land with mourning -
Succeed, and you bring ruin on yourselves
and all the country Fall, :and you bring
iniamy upon yourselves and all your acluded
followers! Succeed and you are the perjured
assassins Of liberty! Fall, anl you are defeat
cd, dcspised traitors forever. Ye who aspire
to be Radical Governors and judges in
Georgia, paint before you this day your
destiny. Unbounded applause You ara
but towards and knavcs, and the time will
come when you will call for rocks and noun
t'lns to fall on you and the darkness to hide
you from outraged people. Applause


Does it do you good to trample on tho
Constitution-dcceivc the negroes and ruin
the country? 1t may be sweet now, but I
tell you the sulphurous fire. Of public infamy
will never be qucnched on your Spirits


Applause / pity you from my soul.
Would that the time had never como when
had to stand on Gcorgias soil and thus
talk to Georgians. A struggle Is coming.
1t 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 copsamation. Let every true lawloving
man rally at once to the standard Of The Con.
stitution ofhis country. [Applause.] Come.
DO not abandon your rights. Defend them.
Talk for them, and if need be, before God
and the country, fight and die for them.-


Enthusiastic and prolonged applausc.[ Do
not talk or think Of secession or disunion,
but come up to the good old platform of our
fathcrs-the Constitution. Let all North
and South, Come and swear before God that
we will abide by it in good faith, and oppose
every thing that violates it. The man who
loves tho 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 " ashington and the man
who is for trampling upon it is my enemy,
and l shall hold him SO, though ho come
from the sunny cline of the orange and tho
cotton bloom. That is my issue.


o! how sorry creature is the man who
cannot stand up for the truth, when the
country is in danger. There never was such
an opportunity as now exists for man to
show Of what stuff he is made. How can
you go about the street and say "al is wrong
but l cannot help it?" You want courage
my friend you arc coward You lack
courage to tell the truth, and would sell
pour birthright for temporary mess of not.
tage; even for little bit of a judgship or a
Bureau officers place.


But some one says: "How will you re-
sist it?' 1 will resist it first by not approx.
ing it. If everybody would do that it would
be cffectually resisted so far as we are con-
ccrned. But the so.callcd Congress has pro-
vided cover for itself in advance under
which to hide from the odiim attaching to
this schome. 1t has provided that you can
vote either for or against q convention, and
again vote for or against whatever constitu-
tion it may frame. It's sought to make US
responsible for whatever may be the conse.
quencc, and relieve them. After while
when you become alarmed at the result, they
will say, "We did 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-uhtil wicked
mon shall be driven from power. But let
it be SO. General Pope seems to be gen.
tlcman, and Infinitely prefer his rule to the
rule of such men as you will get under this
scheme. Besides, the new government, in
augurated, will not be able to live day
without military protection. II is better to
be governed by power than by treachery.


Perhaps you will think I have overdrawn
the picture of the fearful consequences Of
accepting this scheme. recollect an Incl
dent which occurred over six years ago,
when was urging the people Of Georgia
not to secede, because the country would
thereby fall into the hands Of Radicals, and
predicted war and its attendant sufferings