Year: 1870

so it is. Another thing: 1t is the
great reform party Of this country
We have made the greatest reforms
that ever were made, and shall con-
tinue to make them; but we only do
one big thing at a time. People that
undertake to do everything at once,
nearly always fail as 10 everything
You can see how we have advanced
step by step, until the country is
brought TO its present condition.
There are other great reforms TO be
accomplished, and the Republican
party Is the party to do it. 1 tell my
friends if they want reform to stay
with that party that has made re-
forms, and that is imbued with the
spirit Of reform now. Somehow or
other, whenever a man fails to get an
office that he wants, he is very apt to
become a refOrmer. He discovers all
at once that he is taxed to death. 1t
may turn out, unOn inquiry, that he
never paid a dollar poll tax in his life,
he becomes all at once grievOusly op-
pressed and afflicted by taxation. The
Republican party cannot give all its
honorable members offices, nor one in
a thousand Of them. The party was
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offices, but was created for the benefit
Of the nation, and whenever it ceases
TO be for the benefit Of the nation it
should be dissolved. No party should
live an hour longer; and whenever
the Republican party becomes corrupt
and demOralized, and ceases to be
reform party, it is high time for it to
give way to some other party; not the
Democratic party; oh no! but for
some new party that will come with
reform in its hands, and do those
things that it has failed to do.


DUTY OF EVERY PATRIOT.


The old saying is praise the
bridge that carries you safely over"
Stand by the party that saved the
country in the dark hours Of the re-
bellion; thatabolished slavery. Stand
by the party that will restore stability
and solid business foundations; the
party that has given to this country
prosperity and glory it has never had
before. Stand by that party, and in
50 doing you will stand by the Re
publican party.


The Republican party has not per-
formed its missiOn-not until the
work of reconstruction is completed.
Now we have admitted all the States.
Georgia has been admitted she has
taken her place once more in the
Union; she has been admitted upon
correct principles, upon principles
that I eontended for throughout this
session of Congress, and for the advO-
cacy Of which I received some cen
sure. The work Of reconstruction is
perfect and complete so far as that is
concerned, but there is much to do
vet in the Southern States. There is
a deep feeling of hostility to Union
men on the part of rebels yet, aud
| especially to the cOlOred men that
have been enfranchised. We have
got to take care Of those people. We
are bound to take care Of the Union
men of the South, and we will do it.
/ The Republican party is committed to
that in honor; to the payment of the
national debt, and the preservation of
the credit of the nation; and for 9TH
er reasons I might mention, but have
not time, the Republican party should
be preserved.


1 thank you kindly for your atten-
ton. I have endeavOred to speak to
you plainly and freely, and in cOnelu-
sion I exhort you not to be governed
by the prejudices Of part, but to
stand by those men and those princi-
piles that have preserved, fOstered and
maintained your interest, politically,
peeuniarily, and in every point Of
view.


claim that this has been done by
the Republican party Of this nation,


and ask you, therefore, to continue


to give it your support.