From a Speech of Hon. Mr. Horr.

"We of the North do not seek sectional strife. *** What you really need is to go to work. [Great laugh ter. You should have more schools, more enterprise and thrift, and less recklessness of life, less hatred of what you call carpet baggers-damned Yankees! Your business enterprise should be conducted more with piety and less with pistols! What Mississippi needs to day is more corn and cotton and less cussedness, [laughter and applause]; more mills, more man liness; less murders, less moonshiners. What would improve South Carolina is more hams and fewer Hamburghs. She should raise more horses and hogs and less hell. [Great applause.]"-Congressional Record.

From a Speech of Hon. Mr. Blackburn, of Ky., 1879. "We do not intend to stop until we have stricken the last vestige of your war measures from the statute book."

Robert Toombs to a Friend in Washington.

But what are we to do? We cannot put in one of our own men this time, and have to take a 'Yank.' That being the case, let us take one who is less 'bluebellied' than the most of them. You may depend upon it, sir, that, 'Yank or no Yank,' if elected, the old boys of the South will see that Hancock' does the fair thing by them. In other words, he will run the ́machine to suit them, or they will run the thing themselves. They are not going to be played with any longer. If you hear any man say that 'Hancock' can not carry all of the South, you may put him down as a fool."

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CHAPTER I.

The Impending Crisis.

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PART I-Page 1-The Paramount Issue of the Hour-Democratic Leaders preparing for Violence-If Fraud fails, then Force-Democratic belief that Tilden was "legally elected-Tilden cheered as President" in 1880-Democratic leaders declare in advance there shall be "no Arbitration" this timeWallace shrieks "Aggression"-Representative Hill declares that they will inaugurate Hancock whether they elect him or notSpeaker Randall and Inauguration___by Force-Governor Stevenson declares Hancock is "Elected" President--Declarations of John Kelly, of New York, Barnes of Ga., Montgomery Blair, General Preston of Ky., Col. Williams, Col. McDaniel, and others, showing the Programme of Force.

PART II-Page 3-The Power behind the Throne-Direct as well as Internal Evidence that Hancock was Nominated by the "Solid South"-Testimony of Senator Wallace, General Joseph E. Johnston, and Wade Hampton-Hampton's condition pledgeThe evidence conclusive.

CHAPTER II.

Spirit of the Solid South.

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PART I-Page 4-Wade Hampton's Speech at Staunton, Va., backed by Proofs of Genuineness-The Indissoluble Bonds of the Confederacy-The "Glorious Heritage" of hate and lust of Power-He adjures Virginia by her Confederate 'Traditions" to stand by the "Solid South"-A "Glorious Past""Our one great object," Hancock's electionLook only to that; Fight for it!"-Elect Hancock and the North also shall be Bulldozed-The Republican vote North shall disappear "Peace and Union" when the South can Dictate-"Consider what Lee and Jackson would do were they alive. These are the same principles for which they fought. Do not abandon them now!"

PART II-Page 5--The Confederate Brigadiers in the Senate-They eulogize Jeff Davis, and would Pension him and the Confederate Soldiers-How they Voted-Zach Chandler's scathing denunciation. PART III-Page 7-Jefferson Davis' last set Speech-The right of Secession now vindi- |

cated-A "Necessity" for the Safety and Freedom of the Southern States"-The duty to fight for it-The South will abide by the Constitution as they construe it-Assurance of full Triumph to the South-The coming Southern Domination- "Principles and Practices" of the Slave-holders to be Restored-The Mississippi Shot-gun means Southern Restoration-The spirit which animated his hearers-Spirit of the Mississippi Press.

PART IV-Page 8-Further Testimony as to the Spirit of the South, from Southern Democratic, Greenback, and other sourcesSenator Morgan says the recent Alabama Election shows " 'conclusively the Spirit of the South!"-A Greenback Orator Astounded in Alabama-"The Confederacy still exists!"-"Jeff Davis is yet our President!"- A 66 Solid South will give us control, and we can redress all our wrongs "Voice of Virginia's Democracy-The hour at last has come to take the Presidency, "and resume the Record of Glory where in 1861 it unhappily closed!"-Governor Wiltz of Louisiana says the South is solid for Hancock- "There is no occasion now for Bulldozing." The Negro must side with the Democrats, "or go to the Wall "-"The Imperishable Heritage of Glory" transmitted by Rebels-White Republicans to be branded as Enemies-White Republican candidates to be "Saturated with Stench "-1,000 Democratic votes 64 'equal to 5,000 vile Radical" votes-"We have the Count". The Democrats control South Carolina, and "intend to Retain it at every Hazard!"Heroic deeds of Rebel Sires--We offer no Excuse for being a Solid South-The Central National Greenback Organ on the Spirit of the South-The party of Hate, Malice, and Subversion-Advises Greenbackers to "Work against it, Vote against it, Refuse its Alliance!

CHAPTER III.

Revolutionary Proceedings and Purposes

of the Democratic Leaders: PART I-Page 10-Introduction to the Evidences of Tilden's Revolutionary Intentions-Democratic Revolutionary Proceedings thus far-Their remarkable growthHow a Minority can Overthrow a Government-Forcible Illustrations of the peril that Potter strove to Precipitate-Plausible pretexts for Revolution always ready.