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The Savannah Daily Herald.
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SAVANNAH. FRIDAY, JUNE 2, W«.
—i. mm in i. ■ m i i‘FTT
Meeting of the Loyal Residents
of Savannah*
LARGE ATTENDANCE OF ALL
CLASSES.
ZAS PORT ANT RESOLUTSoNS.
AIDBEt? JOHYsO* ENDORSED B 1 THE
ISSEfIBLf.
Syuipatbizm with Spf«s*t»n uot
to be Supported for Ofiiee.
A. Military Governor for Georgia
Asked For.
Addresses by Col. A, W.fejtoue
and. Col. Oaulden.
(Specially Reported for the Savannah Daily Heiald.j
[in accordance with a request contained in
a resolution of the Georgia Union Club,
adopted at n regular meeting on Wednesday
evening last, we re-publish the report of
the great meeting in their ball on the preced
ing evening j
A Public Mketlno of the “loyal residents
of Savannah, who endorse the policy of the
President of the United States, as indicated
by his past history,” was held Mat 30, 1805,
at the Georgia Uuion Club Hall, over the Ex
press office, “to consider such measures
in harmony with the present Administration
as will conduce to the welfare of the State.
The Attendance.
The house was well tilled with loyal men of
all classes. The attendance was mostly of
civilians, including mauy natives of Savan
nah; and a sprinkling of officers and soldiers.
The Hall us the Club
was decorated with the stars and stripes.fes
tooued upon the wall in the rear of the
speaker and looped with block crape. The
hall which was last evening thrown open
for a public meeting for the first time is ad
mirably adapted to that purpose, and has
recently been fitted up with seats and a fine
platform for speakers, by the club.
Organisation.
Col. Wm. H. Stark, President of the Geor
gia Uuion Club, called the meoting to order,
and, on motion .of Col. A. L. Stoue, he was
chosen to preside.
Messrs. L. A. Dodge and Israel R. Sealy
were appointed Secretaries by the Chair.
Couunttur on Hesolutious.
The following were appointed a Commit
tee to draft resolutions: L. S. Bennett, Mar
tin Duggan, E. S. Riddell, Mr. Padelford,
Mr. Brigham, Mr. Wadleigh, J. G. Mills.
Tin Hrtolutloiii.
The committee reported the following:
it&iolveii, That we cordially appiove of the
policy of Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States, as indicated by his past his
tory and more recently in his address to the
Indiana delegation, and pledge to the Ad
ministration our cordial united support aud
co-operation.
Itesofi erf, That we will henceforth support
such men only for office as shall satisly us
that they have no sympathy with secession,
and will pledge themselves to abide by and
sustaiu all acts passed by the Congress of
the United States.
HfxotvfU, That in view of the present dis
organized und unsettled condition of affairs
m this State, we believe a Military Governor
is a necessity until the power of the enemies
of the United States Government shall have
been so crippled as to cease to be dangerous,
aud the ballot-box so guarded as to ever pre
vent the recurrence of the terrible scenes
from which we have been delivered by the
power ot the United States Government.
Mr. C. K. Osgood moved the adoption of
the resolutions.
Address of Cut. A. YV. Stone,
Col. A. Vi Stony was called upon to speak
on the motion for the adoption of the resolu
tions. He was received with applause. He
made an eloquent allusion to tlu> Stars and
Stripes, his flag, the flag ot ail loyal people,
displayed for the lirst time publicly in that
hall for a long time, and theu, with some
comments, read extracts from President
Johnsons address to the Indiana delegation,
as exhibiting his policy. He then spoke as
follows:
Over four years of dark desolating war
have spread over our land—not one bright
spot can he remembered, oue long dark night
of ruin, and e*ery fireside has its vacant
chair, the loved ones are gone, our fair laud is
dotted over with new made graves, and
weeping mothers, wives and sisters go about
the streets iu the garb of sorrow—truly
the whole land mourneth- hut, thank God
tbe wur is over, uud new duties and anew
life await us—the cruel wounds of war must
be healed—the bitterness that has taken root
iu the heart must be extricated*—passion
must be laid aside and calm, deliberate rea
eon take hs place.
and important duties devolve upon
the people ot the South It is for them to de
teinnne whether tree Government shall be
lor them and tor their children, or whether
the strong arm of military power shall grind
a people that refuse to yield willing, heaitv
and cheertul obedience to just laws humane
ly administered-whelher we will govern
ourselves, or refusing that, be ruled with an
rrcu hand. I have watched |this revolution
trom the beginning and its authors and abet
tors. It commenced long before the election of
Abraham Lincoln. *
John C. Calhouu sowed the foul seed, and
we, at this day have gathered the terrible
harvest. And the memory of that intellec
tually great man will be remembered only in
sorrow that he ever lived. Rivers of blood
a desolated country are the land marks
of his memory. His disciples have been the
more imnndiate teachers of the people—ac
tuated by an unholy ambition for place aud
power they taught the people lies, and they
have been scourged with thorns. Tell me uot
that the acts of Secession were the uprising of
the people against tyranny and oppression in
justice and wrong; tell me not it was the elec
tion of Abraham Lincoln that kindled the
tire 9 of of revolution in the South; no, no, for
years the “fire eaters” in the South had seen
the suu of their power declining, had begun
to realize the fact that they could not always
control the destiny of the natiou in their
own peculiar way, they could have justice
and equality, but with that they were uot sat
isfied, aud as they could rule supreme no
longer, determined on the destruction of the
Government of their fathers, and to erect on
its ruins an aristocracy that they could rule
or ruin as their own will might dictate.
That being their determinutiou long before
; the Democratic Convention in the city of
j Charleston, S. C. in 18(10. we find on iuqui-
I riug into the secret records of those traitors,
who had resolved upon the destruction of
the Government, that they were in secret
caucus iu the city of Charleston with the
press Itought iu their interest not to publish
their arrival in the city, more than once prior
to the Democratic ' Convention of 1800.
There was Wm. H, Yancey, Robert Toombs,
Barnwell Rhett, Howell Cobb, Wig
fall, Benjamin, Thomas R. R. Cobb, and oth
er traitors iu secret caucus plotting treason,
devising ways and means to break up the
Convention, secure the nomination of
what they called an Abolitionist by the
North, and then with a lie upon their lips,
and deception in their hearts go borne
and, by appeals to the passions and prejudi
ces of the people, fire their hearts for revo
lution. In this connection the re
mark of Wm. L. Yancey to J. Knox Wal
ker, of Tennessee, both delegates to that
Convention, is significant—Mr. Walker of
fered to withdraw the name of Mr. Douglas
if the Convention would adopt the princi
ples of the Cincinnati platform and support
any man they might nominate. Mr. Yan
cey replied : “Any proposition acceptable to
Mr. Douglas or hi3 friends is in itself unac
ceptable to us. I mean .Disunion, twice I
have been before my constituency advoca
ting it, and been defeated, but now I shall
succeed and we will drag out all who will
not go with us.” That threat proved too true,
South Carolina weut out, Georgia and other
States were dragged out, and the result is
before us in cities destroyed, and a
people impoverished, dud who but your
selves are responsible tor that ' aet.
Has uot God in his Providence been dealing
justly with you—yea, even mercifully, in
comparison with the crime?
What light had the Federal Government
ever denied you ? What claim tounded in
justice had ever been withheld—what Gov
ernmental act ol wrong ever committed ?
—not one can you to-day point to—and the
confession is forced home that we alone have
been to blame—and those who lmve inaugu
rated the bloody drama, those who advocat
ed and signed the hateful ordinance of Se
cession, will be held responsible in all
coming time for the fearful consequences of
that ill-advised act, and all those who have
since, by their counsel, their purse and the
sword, voluntarily given aid and comfort to
the enemies of the Government, shall ever
hereafter merit the scorn and contempt of
an outraged people.
Those editors whose pens dipped in gall,
those preachers and politicians whose lips
inspired with lies, h&ve made a people
mad, vindictive and cruel, will meet a fear
ful retribution in blasted hopes and iu the
gnawings of a guilty conscience.
It is those who have educated tiie-people
in hatred and a desire for revenge; and, ■
though unharmed, they will cry out like
Cain, that their punishment is greater than
they can bear. Think, O think, my friends,
ot the hundreds of thousands of graves that
are tilled with the victims of this unholy
ambitition! Think, O tliiuk, of the thou
sands of the starved skeletons in the pen of
Audersonville—whose bony fingers to-day are
pointing upwards from their nameless graves
and crvmg for vengeance on the authors of
their suffering and death!
Think, O, think of the countless number
of widows and orphans whose cries go up
all over this land and whose tears speak a
sorrow their lips cannot utter—think of these
things and forget your bitterness, and let a
great, magnanimous nation welcome, you
back to its protection, its privileges and its
benefits. Confess your sins to The nation ;
confess them to each other ; confess them to
your God, and rejoice that the nation you
would have destroyed is saved—and let there
be uo longer in yput 1 hearts any North or
any South, East .or \\ r est, but one united
people—free, prosperous and happy.
The war has wrought great changes, social
ly and politically, and instead of complaining,
we should quit ourselves like men, and set
about with a will to adapt ourselves to the
new and changed condition of things—we
should not wait, for others to do it for us, but
do it for ourselves. I doubt if there is a per
son in the hearing of rny voice that has not
at heart at some time wished the institution
of slavery was out of the way. It was never
considered a Divine Institution until witbiu
a few years, and that heresy is now T explod
d. by Divinity jtself, for God usually takes
care of bis own, and He has let the Slaves go.
It has been a political institution, but it was
tor Alexander 11. Stephens to discovei in it
the proper elements tor the corner stone of a
Southern Conlederacy—.rfhd I think he was
a little mistaken, lor the stone is broken, and
the Confederacy has tumbled down, and lias
socially aud politically buried hs archi
tects iu its ruins. Slavery is dead; Secession
killed it. The Providence of God made its
peculiar guardians the instruments of its owu
destruction. And what is the use of burrow
ing under its old fossii remaius in a vain en
deavor to resurrect it into a short sickly life?
—lather bury it out of sight forever, and let
its watchers 4ml nurses get well as soon as
possible. A little line air wholesome exer
cise will soon render then) convalescent and
change their mourning into gladness.
I believe this country \yas destined by Qod
for the white man, and that it is our mission ;
to develope its vast resources—Agricultural
uud Mineral, front the Atlantic tojtne Pacific
from the North Pole to the Equator, bound,
ed by no latitude or longitude but oue vast
country of lreemcn, with one government,
oue flag; one fact this war has developed that
we shall not forget and that other uutions do
yvell to remember, that under oue flag we
cau whip the combined powers of the world.
I am not troubled about the negro. lam wil
ling he should enjoy all the liberty unif, fice
dom he is capable of, and the government will
give him, and if they make meu of them
selves they shall be treated like men; but if
I had the disposing of them just now, I
. 'would raise an army of them four hundred
thousand strong, clothe them in United States
blue, with United States muskets in their
hands, knapsacks ou their backs, four days
rations in their haversacks, put them under
the command of General Sherman, face them
; towards Mexico, with instructions to enforce
the Monroe Doctrine, and you would see
Maximilian aud Jolmny Frenchman skedad
ling worse than the chivalry of South Caroli
na did a few days ago.
But why waste words and fret about the
black men, the same Providence that made
them free, will take care of them. Let us go
to work for ourselves and as soon as possible
adjust the machinery of the government to
the changed condition of things. It is sadly
out ot order; it has been running the last
four years off the track, and must be engi
enered back; we have enough to do and must
do it with a w ill. Not only has the govern
ment to be put in order, but our Internal Im
provements are all to be rebuilt, and increased
in ten-fold proportion. We have enough to
do without the negro, and finding fault with
the consequences of Secession. Repent of
your iugloriousacts, and keep repenting, and
do works meet for repentance. God knows
that sins enough have been committed in the
iuainruration and prosecution of this unholy
strife, to keep the actors in the bloody drama
on their Knees for the balance of their lives.
They can repent, but never atone for the
great evil they have inflicted upon the na
tiou. It has been one long dark catalague
of crime from the beginning to the end, cul
minating in the cowardly assassination
of the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, the
most illustrious martyr in the cause of free
dom and self Government. A man, great
in his goodness, and good in his great
ness-tempering justice with mercy to
the ill-advised aud misguided . All now
denounce the act as unparalleled in the his
tory of the world, and cry out for ven
geance on the cowardly assassin. And yet
he was but a pupil from the school of Se
cession, educated aud prepared for the act by
the guilty authors and supporters of Treason
and Rebellion. Have not the press of the
South without rebuke advertised for the
man who would undertake the vile act ofas
assinatiug Abraham Lincoln, Andrew John
son and Wm. H Seward, falsely asserting
that, that act aceomplishod, peace would fol
low? Peace after such an aet! Peace to its
aiders and abettors! Peace to a people who
have advocated, or silently permitted its ad
vocates to go unrebuked! There can he no
peace to them. It was the last foul deed of
treason, the last insult to the National honor,
the last sting of the creeping serpents, nurs
ed under the shadow of the Palmetto of
South Carolina, and theories aloud for ven
geance ascend to Heaveu through the length
and bredth of the land. That
voice that spoke forgiveness to re
pentant rebels has been hushed in death—
those to whom forbearance would have been
extended and forgiveness exercised are per
imps among those who conspired his death.
And those feelings of magnanimity and kind
teitierness that had so deep root in the hearts
oi the loyal North, that even the wholesale
slaughter, exposure aud starvation of North
ern soldiers in the prison pens of the South
had uot wholly destroyed, are uow drowned
in one universal sentiment of horror at the
foul deed that deprived the nation of its cho
seu leader, and <he South of their best friend.
Justice demands punishment, and mercy sor
rowing cannot plead her cause or say aught
why justice should not be fully satisfied.
Whatever man may do, the judgment of
Heaven will fall on the guilty authors of such
treason, and they w ill find that, though “the
mills of God grind slowly, that they
grind exceeding small.,’ I advocate no
vengeance, no revenge. Such a spirit
would be unworthy the people of so
great a nation. On 'the contrary, I would
exercise the most generous forbearance to
ward the deceived aud deluded masses iu the
South—dragged into an unwilling support
of a cause they despised, but which they had
no powei to resist, aud have yielded a reluc
taut obedience to the power that surrounded
them. But to those who, with an oath upon
their lips to. support the Constitution ol
the United States —holding offices of
profit and trust under that government, con
spired to destroy it, that upon its ruins they
might build a despotism subject to their
will. I have no comparison—forbearance
would be criminal on the part of the gov
ernment, and an insult to those who
have so gallantly defended our nation’s hon
or aud upheld its flag in a thousand battles,
carrying it victoriously from one end of the
land to the other until at last it floats trium
phant over the grave of rebellion. The
fallen braves of Gettysburg, the Wilderness,
Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chicßamauga and At
lanta would rise in judgment against us as a
nation if uo punishment follows treason.
The dead martyrs of Libby and Ander
souville wiflj sepulchral voice disclose the
secrets of their prison-house apd demand pun
ishment for treason. The \yeepiug mothers,
widows apd sjsters of our land, whose hopes
lie buried in the graves q! their loved ones,
demand punishment to a (lend
i President looking down from the spirit
i Land, says, let justice be dope to the authors
of all our w'oe, and a Nation responds
Amen !
There are small and big traitors; the small
ones doing the dirty work of the big ones,
like village curs bark when their fellows did,
and no less culpable than they, such are the
ones who have pursued, hunted with dogs,
shot and hung, those whose ouly offence was
a fealty or suspected fealty to the old Stars
and Stripes. Those who would raise the
black flag and exterminate the Yankee van
dals—those who lejoiced at the sufferings of
the starving soldiers of the Uuiou—those
who, if Hell was here aud the Yaukees there
would go to the former in preference to the
latter. Such meu were not deceived, but
traitors at heart, and are the first to profess
conversion when captured by Uncle Sam’s
preachers. Ju9t as soon might the d—i be
come a saint, and I would have equal con
fidence in his conversion.
The law lias overtaken them and they pro
fess penitence, and beg for clemency. But
the voice of the thousands of martyrs say,
“Justice!”
Treason has ceased to be respectable and
they always abhorred it—they haven’t doue
anything, np upt they—shall u]l these go
unpunished—shall tlje social aud political
power of such miscreants be preserved to
them? Neyer.
Not enough traitors must be left tp make
treason respectable again. If traitors at
heart—if they hate the Union—if the expe
riences of the past are uot sufficient—if the
desolation that surrounds them—the bleeding
hearts of their couutrymen, cannot work a
change in their hearts, then this country is
no place for them. There is a necessity lor,
auu there must be, a rtai genuine, uncompro
mising iojalty. not a loyalty enforced by iu
terest or fear; not the oath of ailogiance on
the lips and a curae in the heart for the gov
ernment you swear to obey. Events instruct
you that you have beeu wrong, and it is wise
and Christian to yield, and time will soften
the feelings and weaken the power of old
associations, aud we may become brotL ers
again.
You have sons slain—you mourn the loss
of loved ones dead ; you have suffered severe
ly ; but your conscience, if not uow, will
in the future tell you, at your own door lies
the blame. You sought to destroy that gov
ernment your fathers would have died to
save. There was no principle at stake; only
a pernicious claim to control in your ow r n
peculiar way the destiny of the nation, and
the government could uot permit you to go
without committing suicide, and you and
your children will live to rejoice that you did
not succeed.
There is something to be admired in indomit
able courage, a self-sacrificing heroism even in
a bad cause, aud the iutensity of this contest
has created a respect for each other
which will after a time ripen into friendship,
that shall last through time, aud though ter
rible the destruction it is but the inevitable
result of the conflict and not irremediable.
The dead .eauuot be restored to life, the
maimed to health, uor the institution of sla
very resurrected. Yet we cau rebuild our cities,
our towns and villages, our rail roads ami
canals, aud iu a short time, if the work is en
tered upon with determination, our whole
state will be so far ahead of what it ever was
that w T e shall hardly recognize ir, and forget
in our prosperity the terrible ordeal we have
passed. With a soil rich and productive, a
mineral wealth undeveloped and inexhaus
tible. navigable rivers and a net-work of rail
roads, we can and must be a great and pros
perous State. King Cotton has played out, but
as a civilian we can make a very good use of
him, and I thiuk he will adapt himself to the
changed events very readily. A humbug
king any way, but as a citizen we will make
good use of him in developing - the mineral
wealth of the State, and I should not wonder
if he found his brother Pete Rolium up in the
mountains of Northern Georgia, aud if so
there is no telling how rich we shall be.
You have worshipped your black gods quite
long enough, they have beeu to you a curse,
retarding national progress and individual
happiness.
I have said this much without addressing
myself particularly to the Union 'men and
women of Georgia, aud I thank God that there
has been more righteous, than was found in
Sodom, at least ten in every city whose
hearts have always heen right, that have
never worshipped the molten calf of seces
sion nor bowed the knee to Jeff Dayis, and
when the uoise of music and dancing of those
idolaters who had made the calf, was heard
in the camp, their hearts were sad, and their
anger waxed hot; but the Constitution of
their country, the flag of their fathers was
engraven on the tablets of their hearts and
was not broken. No new commandment
was necessary for them—they saw that the
hear* of the people was set on mischief and
that their sin would be visited upon them
and that they would be plagued ou account
of the calf they had made.
That day has come, your day has come,
and you can hardly find a man who will ac
knowledge that he ever worshipped the calf
or even had a hand in making it. The re
membrance of the years of longing and suf
fering you have endured, may excite a feel
ing of revenge, and I will uot say it is uujust
but it is impolitic, it will injure your power
for good.
The Government can aud will take care of
those who have violated its consti
tution aud law's. You by years of inter
course and community ot interest have a
hold upon your lellow citizeus for good. You
have a power for usefulness, responsible even
enviable.
You with your hearts aglow, with love of
the Uuion, strengthened by years of trial eau
do much tow ards the conquering of prejudice
and effecting a spirit of reconciliation a wil
lingness to forget the past aud work togeth
er for the future in the great work of leading
back our state into her uatuial and proper
relations to the Federal Government.
It is a great and glorious work wherein
are to be ignored party prejudice, animosity
aud hate.
The nation lias been fighting for a great
principle, it has triumphed; let it be our
privilege as individuals to triumph over
hate and a spirit of revenge. Our
ship of state has got to be officered and
manned anew; her old commander in a
reckless attempt te steer between the Scyla of
State Rights aud Charybdis of secession run
her into the breakers of revolution, and for
years she has been floundering about that sea,
her captain crazy and the officers drunk ; but
the General Sherman with a crew of seven
ty thousand heroes picked her up, and thank
God she is saved, but sadly out of order—a
mere wreck of what she once was, but she
is not a total loss ; and she was iusured in
Uncle Sam’s Company,and Andrew Johnson is
now President, and she will soon be put aflpat
again, But nope of her former officers can
ever cornmaud her more; they can't be trusG
c-d; real, uncompromising Union men must
be put in command—men that haye been
faithful among the faithless, with liouest,
loyal hearts ever true to the Union ; men
that can keep their eyes on the “light house ’at
Washington, and carry the stars and stripes
at the mast head. Her old commanders
could not be trusted with a scow with a
cargo of rebel treasury notes. Shall these
men be trusted again ? shall they ever have
power for evil ? The answer is, “ no, never!”
and yet it may be suggested that there
are now no recognized leaders
in the South, that they have passed away or
have been supporting the cause of the re
bellion, that there are no meu to
take their places. This may be true,
but all history teaches that emergencies
make meu for the times, and that the great
men of the future are among you, perhaps
hnmble and obscure, not suspected by the
community or themselves, but with true
hearts. with earnest conservative
sentiment, they will come forward,
command respect and excel the gteat
men of the past. Good and true
leaders will not lack when the opportunity
presents. God has preserved one nation and
will raise up leaders equal to the emergency.
.W® Iwye.had treason in the State, lieasou
ip the pulpit, treason among women and of
w Bailors }n the land, ihose sancti
monious pretended servants of Qod, whq in
the livery Heaven have 30 devotedly served
the <i-_i a re the worst; pretending pqt tq be
politicians, they preached treasen with double
effect, availing themselves of the confidence
placed in them by the women they first se-
I duced them from their love to the Union and
“steeled with valor their melting spirits;” and
then, with them, by inflammatory remarks,
disloyal conduct, appeals to their honor, pride
j and courage, succeeded in 'deceiving the
young men of the land into the whirlpool of
treason, Those parsons traitors
a name that will forever be a disgrace 2
them, and it they can find & cavern
| da*k enough, should hide therein their ruon
strous visages torever.
I have uo malice against them, nor no l ove
for them Their influence for evil has been
great.aud they have ever used it to the uttuosf
I do not believe a loyal parson with the ex
ception perhaps ot a few Catholics can Im*
ound in the South. They have preached
treason, talked tieasou, prayed treason, an.t
even “bellowed for revenge.” I mTbe l
vere upon then., but I do -pt believe fealty
to Gcd can exi9t ink s j of treason against
their country. J only offer them the
consolation ot the executioner's prayers
may God have mercy on their souls ’’ ’
It shall hereafter be said ; of them, '“Mane
pastors have degroyed my vineyard, they
have trodden lqy portion under foot, thev
have made my pleasant portion a desolate
wilderness.” c
We should profit by the\‘eaehings of
the past and beware for the future how we
provoke a power w r e cannot resist.
Step by step you were permitted to go on in
the pathway of treasou and rebellion the
government the while in hopes that the dark
cloud that was before you, and the voice of
reason would stop your on w'ard course, and
you would return.
Congressmen and Senators, who had
sworn to support and defend the Constitu
tion of the United States, were permitted
quietly to withdraw from the counsels of the
nation. State after State, as far as possible
by thetr own acts severed their relations to
the Federal Government, and no threats
were made. Where in the history of the
world cau be found such forbearance?
And it was not till the booming cannon
from Charleston Harbor, carrying shot and
shell into the walls of Fort Sumter, compell
ing the heroic Anderson and his little band
ot seventy men to surrender to ten thousand
gallant South Carolinians, under the
command of the little Frenchman
that the nation was aroused that
torch light processions lighted up every
city and village in the South and loud huz
zahs rent the air. And then too, the Govern
ment resolved to put down treason and pun
ish traitors.
Victory after victory followed the South
until many really believed that the God of
the revolution w as w ith them, but I only saw
then, as we all see now, that it was permit
'ted that a great evil micht be destroyed, that
this was to he a natiou of freemen, and labor
honorable, that by the sweat of our face we
should all earn our bread.
It is a result not the object of the.war. Tlie
war became necessary to enforce obedience
to the laws that we all aided in making, for
it had come to a point when disobedience to
the laws of the Union had to be submitted to
by the Government to its ow T n disgrace, or
those laws must be enforced by force of
arms. It was the life or death of the nation
that was involved in the issue, and life, strong,
gigantic life is the result, for who doubts that
the nation is stronger to-day than w’hen this
war commenced. “ And the sun of liberty
rests on our land,shining with unequalled lus
tre, for no dark cloud ol slavery mars its bril
liancy. The enemies of the Government
were the enemies of public liberty and yet
have unwittingly contributed to establish it.
The war has developed some lacts, and
among them some tbai people did not know
one is that the litttle peanut State ot South
Carolina is not the universe, and her chivalry
the only people in the world. Sherman s
Western Hoosiers taught them a lesson on
that subject they will remember. Another
fact, that State sovereignty is a humbug—
that there is but one sovereignty in the Unit
ed States and hia coronet the stars and
stripes. A9 a political question it died with
the rebel government and is buried in the
same grave with slavery, and Gov. Brown is
covered all over with mourning, for his only
hobby-poney is dead ; poor man, he rode it
hard while it lived. That doctrine of State
sovereignty and a spirit of sectionalism that
has beeu cultivated and encouraged by poli
ticians North and South in spite of the warn
ings of the fathers of our government,
wrought our ruin—aud the consequences of
our errors have got to lie repaired, and to tfie
Union men of Georgia the nation looks for
aid in repairing the errors of the past aud
restoring the State to her former power and
glory. The Goveanment will assist us if we
will assist ourselves. Let us rally round the
flag, that glorious old banner, and swear
eternal vengeance against any who shall ever
dare insult or assail it.
Let the memories of the past steel our
hearts and nerve our arms, to avenge treason,
by destroying the traitors.
It has been the custom and practice of the
people to act like mad men, abusing all that
did uot agree with them, by applying to them
the most opprobious epithets. It is time
that such people should kuow that liberty of
speech aud opinion does not consist iu con
ceptions of hate publicly expressed, in vitu
perative epithets, the effect of passion and
hate. For the last four years the vocabula
ry of bad words has been exhausted, in giv
ing utterance to the contempt that the leaders
ot the South hold towards the people aud
government of the United States.
The pnlpi# aud the press have disgraced
their calling, the people have insulted their
intelligence, and now that the time is passed
lor the growth of treason, they pretend to
the largest loyalty. Like the couvicted criiur
mal, they fear the consequences of their acts,
aud are ready to say or do anything that will
save their necks from the halter.
Remark* of Col. (Saulden.
At the conclusion of Col. Stone’9 speech
Col. Gaulden, of Liberty county, was loud
ly called for, and, on responding, was receiv
ed with much applause.
He commenced with a spirited allusion to
the flag under which he stood once more
He felt again with pride aud joy that he wtfs
an American citizen. The speaker then en
tered into an interesting account of the
muchiuations of the traitors in the Baltimore
Convention, of which lie was a member. He
vyas ope of those friends qf Douglas who,
when the pro-slavery agitators threw the
fire-brand qf Congressional protection of
slayery into the Convention, met it with the
Constitutional measure of non-intervention-
The former were defeated and bolted. The
speaker remained while the seceders went
on with their well-plotted scheme to bring
about secession. He returned to this State
to advocate the cause Jof Douglas, the Con
stitution and Union, where he was hissed
and scorned, and hung in effigy.
On the election of Mr Lincoln the Conven -
tion wa9 called which put this State out of
the Union; the speaker related his efforts to
bring the people to their senses from their
