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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old “Southern Recorder” and “Federal Union”
[consolidated.]
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Tuesday, July fi, 1876.
National Democratic Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT :
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
T. A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
The Democratic Party of Baldwin
county will meet a! tbo State House
at 12 o'clock, on the
8tli of July next,
(second Saturday,) for the purpose
of appointing delegates to represent
the county in the Gubernatorial Con
vention, which convenes in Atlanta
on the 2d day of August next.
By order Executive Committee.
M. GRIEVE, Ch’n.
F. C. Furman, Sec’y.
June 17th, 1876.
TtyE DEMOCRATIC NONJI NATIONS.
The action of the convention at St.
Isolds as far as heard from through
the public prints, is favorably receiv
ed witli very few exceptions. Not
withstanding tin* persistant and pow-
ful opposition to Governor Tilden
which was manifested to the last
moment there seems to he an acqui-
eseuce and a determination to sup
port the nominees with activity and
zeal.
The New York Express (Dcm)
does not think the democratic senti
ment of that state was fairly repre
sented, but it says : “We shall follow
the Democratic Flag with a Demo
cratic Platform and Democratic
nomination.” “We shall hope for
the best and work for the best not
permitting disappointment to move
us a hair’s breadth in the discharge
a great public duty.”
The NatimI Democratic
tcbUoh.
Cob-
HON. H. V. JOHNSON AND THE AUGUS
TS CONSTITUTIONALIST.
The Editor of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist must be hard pressed
to find an objection to the election of
the Hon. H. V. Johnson to the office — „ . ,
of Governor, when he bunts up and . handsomely decorated. The “ e | e ‘
publishes an extract from Governor ! gates were promptly seated and the
Johnson's veto message of over 22 j convention called to order at 1
years ago, showing that the Govern- j by Augustus Schell, who submitted
or, at that time while all convict* ' a few brief remarks upon the pur-
were white men, was opposed to the I poses of tuis convention to noimna
leasing of the Penitentiary convicts j candidates whose e ee ion 6 a
to individuals or companies, &c. change the Governmcn , an °^r-
Now were this matter of leasing the j throw corruption an P 1
convicts an “open question,”—were ; administration o re orm
there no law or laws already in force 1 by the peop e. (- PP a ? s . ,.
relative to the matter, and there was the corruption now existing m the
a likelihood of the passage of an Act Government must be buried. This
or Acts, for the purpose of leasing duty must bo confided to the hands,
tbe couvictH daring Gov. Johnson p
St. Louis, June 27.—The Conven
tion assembled in the Hall of the
Chamber of Commerce, which was
administration, there might have
been some sense in the advocate of
such a system bringing up tbe mat
ter for discussion. But when tbe
Editor of the Constitutionalist and
the whole country well knew that
that matter has already been sottled,
that there are already sufficient laws
in force upon the subject, aud that
Gov. Smith, under these laws, has
gone forward and leased out the
State convicts for the next twenty
years—that the contracts have aK
ready been signed and sealed—and
when the Consti f utionalist knows
not of those who now hold the
Government, but to the Democratic
party. The thing to be reformed
can’t be reformed by itself. The peo
ple are intelligent and sagacious.
They understand their rights and
will not again trust their interests to
the Republican party. He referred
to tbe Democratic as tbe hard money
party, from the beginning. He said
it was a trick to try and saddle on
it the existing policy, inconsistent
with hard money principles. All tbe
facts authorizing : per money as a
legal tender an I tl o opinion of the
Supreme Corn fc sustaining it. all
that there is not a more honest man 1 were done during Republican adixfin-
Thc Nashville American does not
disguise or deny regret at the defeat
of Hendricks. Yet regarding the
platform ami protest against further
contraction, sav s it will cordially sup
port Tilden in opposition to the
con traction is Is and corruptionists.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer prefers
Tilden to Hav es. The World says
Cincinnati gave the nation a candi
date without a purpose and a plat
form without meaning. St. Louis
responds with a candidate whose
name is a symbol of reform, upon a
platform which means a peaceful
revolution in the conduct of the
government.
Dispatches from the Pacific States,
uud from all sections of the country,
contain congratulations and promises
of enthusiastic support. The Demo
cratic opponents, of Governor Til-
dcn’s nomination, nio exhibiting the
right spirit. It, was impossible for
all to secure nominations in accord
with all t’ueir views, or a platform to
suit them in every particular. If
Governor Hendricks will accept his
nomination for the Vice Presidency,
it will go far to reconcile the West
to the nomination oi Governor Til- -
den. A) e hope he will exhibit, for
the good of his party and the coun
try, the same patriotic readiness that
has characterized cur Johnson for
the good of his party and state. We
cannot doubt that he will lay aside j
in all Georgia, and one more oppos
ed to a violation of contracts, than
Gov. Johnson, this objection to Gov.
Johnson, it will be seen, is not only
far-fetched and ridiculous, but it is
even childish !
And, by-the-bye, that our readers
may seo wbat a
JIM CROW
the Augusta Constitutionalist is, not
only in relation to Gov. Johnson,
but also in relation to our grand
old State, we here copy au editorial
article that appeared in that paper in
April last, not three mouths ago :
“the model democratic state.”
“Elsewhere we print a curious ar
ticle from the New York Times
anent Georgia politics. The Times
is deceived by the hurly-burly of
Gubernatorial aspirauts, and betray
ed into an error when it supposes
for an instant that the Democratic
party is at all disorganized, and the
Republican faction correspondingly
strengthened or elated. In spite of
the rivalry existing between Smith,
Colquitt. Hardeman, Gartrefl and
James, they will not fail to submit to
tbo choice of a Convention, and each
and all of them will work, heart and
soul, for the favored candidate.
The State of Georgia will be per
fectly safe in the hands of either of
the gentlemen named; and if some
other person should lie nominated,
the voice of the people would be ac-
quiesed in fully anil unreservedly.
Ex-Gov. Johusou’s position, as we
understand it, is this : A total disin
clination to enter the field for the
position of Georgia’s Chief Magis
trate, but a willingness to serve his
beloved commonwealth, even against
his personal predilections, in any
manner. It would be a grand day
for Georgia if a man so honored, so
reverenced, so renowned, so incor
ruptible, so gifted as Herschel Y.
Johnson should be again seated iu
tbe chair of State. Nor ; s lie indif
ferent to “the history of the past fif
teen years,” as his noble conduct,
during the insurrectionary trials,
plainly proved. Jt is true that he
clings to the landmarks of the Con
stitution and the faith of the Fathers
of tho Republic—to those muni
ments of free government that made
ns a great, wise, prosperous and hap
py people—but he is a lover cf the
law, as well as an upright dispenser
of it. Would to God the countrv
istration. He then referred k: .fly
to tho evil results. The ren is
not rapid contraction or increase of
currency but the one remedy at this
time is the repeal of the resumption
act. Do that and give the Demo
cratic party tho reins of Government
and then policy of the one money
and sound finance will bring specie
payments speedily. (Applause.) This
Centennial of National Independence
we have met to adopt means to res
store the country to prosperity. May
we not hope that after sixteen years
I of Republicanism, that the Demo
cratic party may resume its supreme
acy in the Government. The rules
that will govern the convention will
ensure good nominations. Ho ex
horted the convention to wisdom in
making the platform.
At the conclusion of his remarks,
he nominated Henry Watterson of
Kentucky as temporary chairman.
[Applause.]
This was unanimously adopted,
Barnum, of Conn., and Ransom, of
N. C., being appointed a committee
for the purpose of conducting Wat
terson to tho chair. Watterson being
presented was received with applause,
and said:
Gentlemen of the Convention:
We are called together to determine
by our wisdom whether honest gov
ernment, administered by honest men
shall 1 >e restored to the American
people, or to decide by our folly
that it is the destiny of this country
to pursue an endless ever-revolving
circle of partisan passion and cor
ruption, until with the loss of our
material well being, wo lose the poor
man’s last hope—civil liberty it
self.
Every citizen of tbe Republic, be
he of one party or the other, feels,
and has felt for many a day, the de
pressing influence of what are called
harsh terms. We look about us and
see neglected fields and vacant
houses, the factories closed, and
furnace doors shut. There are
myriads of idle hands. The happy
activity of prosperous life is nowhere
to be found. Loyalists fatten whilst
honest men starve. Empty the mart,
and shipless the bay. What is it
that lias wrought so groat a change
in a land that under the rule of an
intelligent, progressive, constitution
al party advanced within half a can
tury from a condition of a huddle of
petty and squalid provincial sover
[Voices, “yes, yes,’ ] If so, all right
[Applause].
The Chair answered “It does.”
The resolution was adopted.
Smalley, of Vermont, moved a reso
lution to call tbe States in order for
the presentation of credentials.
Adopted.
Wallace, of Pennsylvania, in order
to have Democratic precedence ob
served, moved to reconsider the reso
lution just adopted. He urged that
the States shonld name their mem
bers of tbe committee on credentials
and permanent organization, before
any other business was done, and
hoped there would be no innovation
on past precedents.
Weed, of New York, insisted that
the resolution adopted is in accor
dance with precedents. Under it
credentials are received only in re
ference to tho Credentials Commit
tee.
Wallace read from the official pro
ceedings of the Convection of 1868
to show that the first business was
to name committees.
Some little discussion took place
on the appointment of temporary
secretaries, roll call of States, ap
pointment of committees, &c. It
was decided to call the roll and name
committees and this was accordingly
done. A motion was made that the
convention adjourn to meet at 3
o’clock. Smith of Illinois, moved a
resolution that a committee of one
from each State be appointed on
resolutions, and all resolutions re
lating to the platform be referred to
said committee without debate.—
Adopted.
Weed, of New York, moved that
the Chairman of each delegation send
to the Chair the name of its member
of the Platform Committea No ob
jection and it was ordered.
The Chairman said the delegates
from the National Woman’s Suffrage
Association were present asking a
hearing. (Ones of “hear them.”)
There being no objection the Chair
announced they would be heard.
Weed, of New York, and Smelley,
of Vermont, were appointed a com
mittee to escort the ladies to tho
platform
The chair announced that a lady
had the floor and refused to hear any
propositions.
Miss Phoebe Cozzens, of St. Louis,
took the platform and addressed the
Convention with self possession, but
in a voice too weak to bo heard many
feet distant.
Birdsall made a point of order
that there could be no committee on
resolutions until after tbe permanent
organization.
The chair said the Convention
had tho power to decide this qnes
tion for itself. The roll was called
and the committee was named. Va
rious resolutions were sent np and
referred under the rule without read
ing.
At eight minutes before two the
Convention took a recess.
We learn from a special to the
Chronicle & Sentinel that the Geor
gia Delegation who were entitled to
name certain officers, selected as a
member of the National Executive
Committee, Barnes of Richmond:
Vice-President of the Convention, It.
E. Lester of Chatham ; member of
tho Committee on Resolutions, E. P.
Howell, of Fulton; member of the
Committee on Organization, J. J.
Jones, of Burke; member of the
Committee on Credentials, P. M. B.
Young, of Bartow Secretary, II. II.
Carlton, of Clarke. The delegation
is divided in its preferences of a can
didate, buta majority of the delegates
will vote for Tilden on the first bal
lot. The delegation will vote accord
ing to his own convictions. P. W.
The organization of the Conven
tion is entirely satisfactory, and the
proceedings so far have be* n perfect-
Government itself with incapacity,
waste and fraud, infected States and
municipalities with the contagion of
misrule, and locked fast the property
of an industrious people. In the
paralysis of hard times reform is
necessary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore the public credit and
maintain the National honor. We
denounce the failure for all these
eleven years to make good the pro
mise of the legal tender notes which
are a changing standard of value in
the hands of the people, and the
non-payment of which is a disregard
of the plighted faith of the nation.
We denounce the improvidence which
in eleven years of peace has taken
from the people in Federal taxes
thirteen times the whole amount of
Compiled for the Union St Recorder.
FROM WASHINGTON.
June 26.—The Senate considered
tho army appropriation bill reor
ganizing tho army, reducing tho
pay, Ac.
In the House.—Tho conference
committee reported they would
agree on the legislative appropria
tion bill. Its proceedings lack gen
eral interest.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
June 26.—Tho different delcga-
w m tions are perfecting their organiza-
counts, a late Attorney-General mis- tions. Most of the Southern dele-
all others in authority are the peo
ple’s servants. Their offices are
not a private perquisite. They are
a public trust When the annals of
this Republic show the disgrace and
censure of a Vice-President, a lato
Speaker of the House of Represen
tatives marketing his rulings as a
presiding officer, throo Senators
profiting secretly by their votes as
law makers, five Chairmen of the
leading committees of tho late House
of Representatives exposed in job
bory, a late Secretary of the Treaeury
forcing balances in the public ac-
the legal notes, and squandered four ; Department,
times this in seless expenses England cens
appropriating public funds, a Secre
tary of the Navy enriched or enrich
ing friends by per centages levied off
the profits of contractors with his
censured in a dishonorable
uni
without accumulating any reserve
for their redemption. We denounce | Secretary barely escaping conviction
tho financial imbecility and immor- | on trial for gnilty complicity in frauds
ality of that party which during elev- ' on the Revenue, a Secretary of War
en years of peace has made no ad- i impeached for high crimes and con-
vance toward resumption ; that in fessed misdemeanors, the demonstra-
gates say they went to St. Louis to
follow and not to lead and will sup
port the man who seems best able to
carry the party to victory. The
New York independents, throngli
Cornell Jewett, published an ad-
had millions of patriots of the same ! eignties to a foremost place among ly harmonious. The friends of Sen-
J character and mould!”
And does the course of tho
j stitutionalist first above alluded
I show any disposition to see that
| “Grand day for Georgia,” he above
speaks of ? Is it not “turning its
upon that “Grand Day for
his personal pride and in the triumph
which wo believe will follow ho will
come in for no small part of the vic
tor's glory. Onr columns are so
filled that wo must deny ourselves
the proud pleasure of more extended
Urrlif^lr >1 le,, l that j aj^nd by “My Maryland,” under sim-
hght already dawns upon tho conn. ! circumstances; all that
Georgia /’’ Is such the course the
| Editor would pursue towards “My
j Maryland,” were she in Georgia’s
position and had such a fair chance
as Georgia really has for a “Grand
Day, Ac.” If the Editor would thu
try, and nothing but a great earnest
and unrelaxing effort, is wanting to
cloth our land in tho sunshine of a
victorious blbssiuer.
say is,
avo can
What kind of love is this 1
In onr last issue our correspon
dent, “W. G. M.” referred to a vin,
THE GUBERNATORIAL CONTEST | dication of the State Agricultural
rru „ , ,, , 1 Department against a suggestion in
. h v.r 'V u 1S *i° r t ° / ffk his former communication adverse to
h«™ been HIM w,U. founts oftbe j the policy of maintaining tlmt lie.
disgraceful scenes that occurred in ! , mr t‘„ent He has placed in onr
hands this vindication
Atlanta on the 24th ult, in the con
test between Gen. Colquitt and John
H. Jami s for delegates to the Guber
natorial convention. Free carriages,
free drinks, and all the means known
to electioneering were used freely by
the friends of each, and the contest
was the hottest ever known in At
lanta—a city with a large floating
The first fruits resulting from
with request
| that we present it to our readers;
| but its length renders this impracti-
i cable. We think our correspon
dent's remarks in his letter in onr
last number, stating the fact that
■ his positions in his previous letter
! were vigorously controverted, are all
that is necessary on the part of our
| journal and of our correspondent to
tills candidacy for the high office of ; do proper j Mlice . H o had express
1 ? ?r f ° pinion8
a. .if , uenmeu out by ideas of economy in the State
that the means emmoved for his sue- c . , . , J .
Government, which were not uew;
take nh amii > f . . mn ' f e j and he has stated in general terms,
. P ” ‘ 1 Linsemug to our tRat these opinions are controverted
mid from Gen. Colquitt by a ] en gthened statement of details
were , the mcans , U8ed j tending to show the great value of
We also publishes au act o'f^justice ' D " Department. This is
± ^ A . ...’ . . j a uce enough. Ve have no room for more,
ratify mu- a8 we Jq nc q p r0 p 0ge t Q hatch con
troversy or enter into details on the
columns
in whicl
to Gen. Colquitt, and to
tual friends, a communication sign
ed “Baldwin.” As for ourselves, we
can but rejoice at the result, for if
Gen. Colquitt is to be our Governor,
we would not have him indebted in
tho least to Atlanta for his nomina
tion or election. Our chief objec
tion to him is that his home is
among that people--that he is a
member of what is known as the
“xvirkwood Mutual Admiration So
ciety. e doubt, if his failure to
carry to Atlanta is a sufficient reason
for the people of Baldwin to rally
to his support, as “Baldwin” seems
to intimate.
After all, these things are the le
gitimate results of the long and
warm candidacy for nomination, and
confirms us in the position “that
the office should seek the man," and
show r s plainly to the people of Geor
gia that the man who does not seek
the office, but will serve only be*,
cause it is the wish of his country
men, is the right man for the office.
We believe the “overruling Provis
dence” to which Herschel V. John
son cheerfully submits himself, will
“pour oil on the troubled waters” by
again calling him to fill the Execu
tive chair. He is the man for the
times.
subject.
From llie Atlanta paper*.
To the Public.—Certain publica
tions in the newspapers of this city,
in reference to the use of liquor in
the late canvass, are thought by my
friends to require notice from* me.
I have only this to state, that I never
contributed one cent for the purpose
or any other electioneering purpose,
either directly or indirectly. What
ever may have been done in the mat
ter. was without my knowledge and
contrary to my well-known wishes.
A. II. Colquitt.
Tilden and Hendricks aud Reform!
Now, for victory! No time for loi
tering ! Fall into line !
We are indebted to the lion. Phil
ip Cook of Georgia, for a copy of his
speech the on sundry civil appropri
ation bill, delivered iu the House of
Representatives on the 21st of June.
It is stated that within a radius of
fifty miles around Augusta, the crops
arc finer than they have been for fif
teen years.
4th of July in Chattanooga.—
Extensive preparations are being
made for the East Tennessee Centen
nial celebration at Chattanooga,
which takes place to-day. Hon.’ r ...
Tomlinson Tort, Mayor of the city of j for Atlanta.
Chattanooga will read the Declara
tion of Independence; the History of
Chattanooga by Capt. John P. Long;
Qration by Col. Gustavus A. Wood.'
Rev. C. A. Kendrick of Columbus
was found guilty of adnltery, and
fined $500 00 and cost of the court
($64). The Enquirer learns that tho
fine was paid and Kendrick will leave
We nine to oik mast-head thin Centennial 4tli
of Ju
uly, the banner of Reform with tbe earned
hope that a brighter day is dawning upon onr
country.
j the nations of the earth? The rea-
Con- ' 8on men m, ist answer, partisan
, ; misrule and sectional misdirection.
°’ The Republicans, my friends, are
not alone responsible. With them
rest the disgraces—with us the fol
lies. These twin agents of National
mischance, working under the miser
able rule of contraries, have kept the
people of the North and South aside,
and ha va supplied sustenance to cor
ruption. They have disturbed val
ues; they have unsettled prices; they
have made our ‘whole financial sys
tern a cheat and snare; they have
sent tho host el. nents of political
society into exile, and have organized
charlatanism into a sort of a imidic
polity, enabling the rogue to e. a
cheap advantage of his dupe jd
sacrificing every popular interest to
the lust of that oligarchy, which has
become so encrusted with power as
to believe itself entitled to rule by
the sheer force of its own wrong do
ing. So much to the long account
of damages between the North and
South. It is for you to say whether
the same conflict, with consequences
multiplied and magnified, shall by
any act of yours be inaugurated be
tween the East and West. I shall
not undertake on an occasion of this
kind and in presence so imposing, to
enforce the familiar lesson of mutual
forbearance. Nobody doubts our
capacity to make battle among our
selves. Entreating you to direct
your energies to the common enemy.
I ask indulgence only on my own
behalf. You have called me to a
place of not mere distinction, but of
difficulty—a place which requires the
best training of a better mau than I
am. In taking it I trust to your
confidence and good nature and
heart, incapable of an unmanly or
unfair act. The work before* us
should relate to ideas rather than
individuals. It is the issue, not the
man, that should engage us. We
have come here to make the people’s,
not ours, for free, no less than for
honest government, for the reform
of the public service, and the regen
eration of public morals, relief from
administrative nihilation, embraced
in the simple creed of homo rule, re
duced taxes and a living chance for
the South as well as North; for both
the East and West. If anything
comes of one proceeding it must
spring from the association and fel
lowship when warned. The follow
ers of Andrew Jackson and Silas
Wiight, of Henry Clay and Daniel
Webster, meet together on common
ground at last to wrest the govern
ment of their affairs from the clutch
of rings, robbers, Federal, State and
municipal and who mean to extirpate
these whenever they are found and
whether they be Republican or Dem
ocratic.
The points of the speeeh were em
phasised by frequent applause. At
the conclusion he introduced Rev.
Mr. Marvin, who offered prayer.
The chair announced temporary
Secretaries as F. O. Prince, of Mass.,
and T. O. Walker, Iowa; and S. K.
Donovan, of Ohio, as Assistant Se-
cretary. He also announced Dan
Abel, of Missouri, Sergeantsat-arme.
Abbot, of Massachnsetts, moved a
resolution adopting the rales of the
last National Convention, until other
wise ordered.
Littlejohn, of New York, enquired
if this includes the two-thirds rule.
ator Bayard have determined to press
his name for the nomination. I am
informed that he will get sixteen
votes from the Georgia delegation on
the first ballot, and if he develops
strength others of the delegates will
come to him. It is believed by many
that Tilden will receive tho nomina
tion on the first ballot, but tho West
ern men arc bitterly hostile, and the
speeches of Cox and Voorhees against
him to-night were received with
great enthusiasm. P. W.
Governor Samuel J, Tilden of
New York Nominated for
Prtsident.—Hon. Thoma§ A.
Hendricks for Yiee President.
St. Louis, June 28, 1876.
The Convention was called to or
der at 2:15. Judge Meredith, of
Virginia, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Resolutions, presented a re
port, stating that a great many reso
lutions were presented, all of which
had been carefully examined and dis
cussed before coming to an agree
ment. He then requested Gov. Dor
sheimer, of New York, to read the
report to the committee. It was
read as follows :
THE PLATFORM.
We, the delegates of tho Demo
cratic party of the United States, in
National Convention assembled, do
here declare the administration of
the Federal Government to be iu ur«.
gent need of immediate reform. We
do hereby enjoin upon tbe nominees
of this Convention and of the Demo
cratic party in each State a zealous
effort and co-operation to this end,
and do hereby appeal to our fellow-
citizens of every former political
Convention to undertake with us
this first and most pressing patriotic
duty. For the Democracy of tho
whole country we do hereby reaffirm
our faith in the permanency of the
Fedet, *?uion, our devotion to the
Constitution of the United States,
with its i.nendment- universally ac
cepted as a final settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil
war, and do here record our stead
fast confidence in the perpetuity of
Republican self government; in ab
solute acqniesenee in tbe will of tbe
majority the vital principle of the
Republic; in tbe supremacy of the
civil over tbe military authority; in
the total separation of Church and
State, for tbe sake alike of civil and
religious freedom; in the equality of
all citizens before the just laws of
their own enactment; in tbe liberty
of individual conduct, unvexed by
sumptuary laws ; in the faithful edu
cation of the rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy and trans
mit these best conditions of hnman
happiness and hope. We behold
the noblest products of a hundred
years of changeful history, but while
unholding the bond of onr Union
and tbe great charter of these our
rights, it behooves a free people to
practice also that eternal vigilance
which is the price of liberty. Reform
is necessary to rebuild and estab
lish in tbe hearts of the whole peo
ple the Union eleven years ago hap
pily rescued from the danger of a
corrupt centralism, which, after in-»
dieting upon ten States the rapacity
of carpet-bag tyrannies has honey
combed tbe offices of tbe Federal
stead has obstructed resumption by
wasting our resources and exhausting
all our surplus income, and while an
Dually professing to intend a speedy
return to specie payments, has an»
nually enacted fresh hindrances
thereto. As such a hindrance we de
nounce the resumption clause of the
act of 1875, and we here demand its
repeal. We demand a judicious sys
tem of preparation by public econo
mists by official retrenchments and by
wise finance, which shall enable the
nation to assure the whole world of
its perfect ability and its perfect
readiness to meet any of its promises
at the call of the creditor entitled to
payment. We believe such a system
well dveised, and, above all, entrusts
ed to competent hands for execution,
creating at no time an artificial scarci
ty of currency and at no time alarm
ing the public mind into a withdraw
al of that vast machinery of credit
by which ninety-five per cent, of all
business transactions are performed.
A system open, public and inspiring
general confidence would, from the
day of its adoption, bring healing in
its wings to all our harassed indus
try, and set in motion the wheels of
commerce, manufactures and the me
chanical arts, restoro employment to
labor and renew in all its national
source the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessity in the sum and
mode of Federal taxation to the end
that capital be set free from distrust
and labor lightly burdened* We de
nounce the present tariff, levied up~
on nearly 4,000 articles, as a master
piece of injustice in equality and
false pretence. It yields a dwindling,
not a yearly rising revenue. It has
impoverished many industries to sub
sidize a few. It prohibits imports
that might purchase the products of
American labor. It Las degraded
American commerce from the first
to an inferior rank upon the high
seas. It has cut down the sales of
American manufactures at homo and
abroad and depleted tho returns of !
American agriculture or industry fol !
lowed by half our people. It costs j
the people five times more than it ,
produces to the Treasury. It ob '
structs the processes of production
and wastes the fruits of labor. It
promotes fraud and fosters smug
gling; enriches dishonest officers and
bankrupts honest merchants. We
demand that all Custom'House taxa
tion shall be only for revenue. Re
form is necessary in tbe scale of pub
lic expense, Federal, State and muni
cipal. Federal taxation has swollen
from $60,000,000 gold in 1860 to
$450,000,000 currency in 1870; our
aggregate taxation from $184,000,-
000 gold in 1860 to $730,000,000 cur
rency iu 1870, or in one decade from
lees than five dollars per bead to
raoro than eighteen lollars per head.
Since the peace, the people have paid
to their tax gatherers more than
thrice the sum of th national debt
and more than twice that sum for
the Federal Government alone. We
demand a vigorous frugality in eve
ry department, and from evciy offi
cer of the Government reform is nec
essnry to put a stop to the profligate
waste of public lands and their di
version from actual settlors by the
party in power, which has squander
ed two hundred millions of acres up
on railroads alone, and out of more
than thrice that aggregate has dis
posed of less than a sixth directly to
tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of a Republican Congress
and tbe errors of our treaties and
our diplomacy which have stripped
our fellow-citizens of foreign birth
and kindred race recrossing the At
lantic of the shield of American citi
zenship and have exposed our breth
ren of the Pacific coast to the incur
sion of a race not sprung from the
same great parent stock, and in fact
now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization, as being
neither accustomed to the traditions
of a progressive civilization nor ex
ercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thua
discards tho liberty loving German,
and tolerates the revival of the
Coolie trade in Mongolian women,
imported for immoral purposes and
Mongolian men hired to perform
servile labor contracts, and demand
such modification of the treaty with
the Chinese empire or such legisla
tion by Congress within a consti-
tntional limitation as shall prevent
the further importation or immigra
tion of the Mongolian race, lie
form is necessary, and can never be
effected but by making the control-
ing issue of the elections, lifting it
above the false issues with which
the office holding class and the
party iu power seek to smother
it. The false issuo with which they
would enkindle sectarian strife in ro-<
spect to the public schools, of which
the establishment to support be
longing exclusively to the several
States ftnd which the Democratic
party has cherished from their
foundation and resolved to main
tain, without partiality or pro
ferepce for any class, sect or creed,
and without contributing from the
Treasury to any of the false issues by
which they seek to light anew tho dy
ing embers of sectional hate between
kindred people once unnaturally es
tranged, but now reunited in ono
indivisible Republic and a common
destiny. Reform is necessary in the
civil service. Experience proves
that efficient economical conduct
of the governmental business is not
possible if its civil service be sub
ject to change at every election, be
a prize fought for at the ballot box,
be a brief reward of party zeal in
stead of posts of honor asssigned
for proved competency had held for
fidelity in the public employ; that
tbe dispensing of patronage should
neither be a tax upon the time of all
our public men nor tho instrument
of their ambition. Hero again pro.-
fessions falsified in the performance
attest that the party in power can
work out no poetical or salntary ro-
form. Reform is necessary even
more in the bigtier grades of public
service—in President. Vice-Presi
dent, Judges, Senators, Representa
tives, Cabinet officers. These and
peculation, the President’s private dress in tho Evening Dispatch ad
vocating a compromise on the Finan
cial Question. They favor a South
ern man for Vice President and the
postponement of tho financial plank,
until after a nomination. They
state, the Peter Cooper Ticket will
bo withdrawn if the Democrats favor
greenbacks. Tho soft money men,
representing 21 statos, ask the
Convention to pass a resolution call
ing for the repeal of the resumption
act. It is believed the two-thirds rule
will stand. The Greenback delega
tion from New York claim an equal
tion is complete that the first step
in reform must be the people’s choice
of honest men from another party,
lest the disease of one political or
ganization infect the body politic,
and thereby making no change of
men or party we can get no change
of measure and no reform. All these
abases, wrongs and crimes, the pro
duct of sixteen years’ ascendancy of i footing with the Utica delegation in
the Republican party, create a ne
cessity for reform confessed by Re
publicans themselves. But their re
formers are voted down in Conven
tion and displaced from the Cabinet.
Tho parties and mass of honest votes
is powerless to resist the eighty
thousand office holders, its leaders
and guides. Reform can only be
had by a peaceful, civil revolution.
We demand a change of system, a
change of administration, a change
of parties, that we may have a change
of measures and of men.
The reading was frequently inter
rupted by applause. The denunci
ation of the resumption act and de
mand for its repeal was received with
especial favor. At the conclusion,
Mr. Dorsheimer said the Committee
had adopted and endorsed, though
not as a part of the platform, a reso
lution—which he read—endorsing
the action of the House of Represen
tatives in cutting down appropria
tions. He exhorted them to firm
ness. Also a resolution as to the
just claims of soldiers, snilors and
widows and orphans-
On the adoption of tbe platform
the Chair announced the vote—yeas,
651; nays, 83; so the report of the
Platform Committee was adopted.
Nominations were then in order,
and the roll of the States was called.
Col. Williams nominated Mr. Hen
dricks; Mr. Whitely, of Delaware,
nominated Mr. Bayard; Mr. Leon
Abbott, of New Jersey, nominated
Mr. Parker; Mr. Francis Kernan, of
New York, nominated Mr. Tilden.
The first ballot stood: Alien, 56;
Tilden, 40.3£; Parker, 18; Hancock,
75: Bayard, 27; Hendricks, 133£.
The second ballot stood: AlleD,
•74; Tilden, 467; Parker, 18; Hancock,
71; Hendricks, 108; Thnrman, 2.
Iowa changed 20 for Tilden. £lli
nois changed 24 for Tilden and 18
for Hendricks. Missonri changed
20 for Tilden and 10 for Hendricks.
At the close of the second ballot,
without waiting for the announce
ment from the Chair, the Convention
arose and gave long and tumultuous
cheers for ten minutes. The excite
ment and noise almost drowned the
music by the band. Various other
States announced changes amid great
confusion, including Delaware, who
went solid for Tilden. Pennsylvan
ia moved to make it unanimous. In
diana seconded Pennsylvania’s motion
to make the nomination unanimous
and it was adopted. A motion to
adjourn till 10 o’clock to-morrow
was carried at 8:20 o’clock.
the contests for seats, and request
that neither be admitted until the
Convention can act on their claims.
At the Tilden headquarters his
friends claim 442 votes on the first
ballot.
Tbe opponents of Tilden deny the j
correctness of this estimate in many
states. They claim 266 votes. The
full vote is 738; necessary to a choice
492.
Hendrick's vote is put dowu at
255.
The friends, of Tilden, say he will
get the two thirds vote and tho noin
ination on the 2d ballot.
Gen. Hancock is spoken of as a
compromise candidate; also Heury
B. Payne, of Ohio.
Wo copy the following facts in
substance from the special Telegram
The proceedings of the St. Louis
Convention so fill up our columns
that we must defer a full notice until
next week.
Pres. MacMahon has pardoned 87
communists. A few special cases,
involving attempts upon life or liber
ty, will be referred to tbe council of
of Ministers before being prosecut
ed.
In case of a war between Turkey
and Servia, Austria and Prussia will
mass a considerable force on tho
Turkish frontier.
FROM WASHINGTON.
June 29.—Tho conference commit
tee on Naval appropriations made a
report, which was adopted and goes
to the President. The conference
committee on the Post Office appro
priation bill reported that they were
unable to agree. Senate adjourned.
In the House a now conference
committee was appointed on tho
Post Office appropriation bill. Tho
conference report on tho Naval ap
propriation bill was adopted.
Washington, June 29.—Tho South
ern States on the 1st ballot voted :
Arkansas, Tilden 12 ; Alabama, Til
den 13: Hendricks, 5; Hancock 2; Geor
gia; Tilden 5; Hancock, 1; Bayard,
16; Virginia, Tilden, 17; Hendricks,
1; Bayard, 4; Wost Virginia, Allen,
10 ; Texas, Tilden, 10 ; Hendricks,
10 ; Hancock, 2 ; Bayard, 1 ;
South Carolina, Tilden, 14 ; Mo
bile, Tilden, 2; Hendricks, 7 ; A 1 -
len, 2; Broadhead, 19; Tennessee,
Hendricks, 24; Mississippi, Tilden, 16;
Louisiana, Tilden, 9; Hendricks, 5;
Bayard, 2; Maryland, Tilden, 11;
Hendricks, 3; Hancock, 2; Florida,
Tilden, 8 : North Carolina, Tilden,
9 ; Hendricks, 4 ; Hancock, 5 ;
Bayard, 2. On tho 2d ballot
North Carolina changed to Tilden,
19; Hancock 1; Maryland changed
to Tilden 16;Hondricks, 14. Tho oth
er States voted as follows: Texas, Til
den, 16; Louisiana, Tilden, 16; Mary
land, Tilden, 14: Hendricks, 6; Geor
gia, Tilden, 15. Bayard, 7. Tho re-
mainiuglSouthern States voted as in
the first ballot.
FOREIGN NEWS.
A launch from Jamaica was re
cently surprised and captured. It
to the Chronicle <£;'Sentinel. The ! contained amunition, carbines, cloth-
Georgia delegation held a meeting j ing provisions Ac. Nino insurgents
this morning (26th) to perfect their i were killed, among thorn a Colonel
organization. Gov. James M. Smith j Duran.
was elected Clntirman and Patrick 1 Yellow fever is raging at Havan-
Walsh, of tho Chronicle <fc Senti ; na, many cases proving fatal.
nel, Secretary ' Prince Milan left Belgrade for tho
All of the Southern delegations ! army amid tho cheers of tho popu-
St. Louis, June 29.—Tho Conven
tion was called to order at 10:20
o'clock. Interest has evidently great
ly abated. Many delegates left, leav
ing their alternates in their places.
Tho galleries contain but few specta
tors. After prayer by Episcopal
Bishop Robertson, tbe Chair an
nounced several telegrams, which
were read.
HeDdricks was nominated by ac
clamation on the first ballot.
After the proclamation of Hen
dricks’ nomination Kelly, of New
York, rose to address the chair. [Ap
plause]- Loud calls were made for
“Kelley,” “Kelley.” He proceeded
to the platform amid cheers. Kelly
said there was no man here who
worked more strenuously than him
self against the nomination of Tilden,
but it was his earnest belief that we
e®hld not carry the election with an
Eastern candidate. The Convention
has decided otherwise and he bowed
to tho decision and' none would la
bor harder than be for his election.
Ho expressed his great admiration
for Hendricks and confidence in his
pure character and counselled the
burial of all personal opinions and
coneentrato for an effort for a com
mon victory. He proceeded with
some comment on the necessity for
a change of the national administra-
f ion through Democratic success and
was frequently greeted with applause.
The following are tho members of
tho National Committee for the
Southern States: Alabama, Bragg;
Florida, Call; Kentucky, McHenry;
Maryland, Horsey; Louisiana, Johns;
Missouri. Priest; Tennessee, Bates,
South Carolina, Rion; Mississippi,
Barkesdale; Virginia, Campbell; Tex
as, Stockdale; Georgia, Barnes;
North Carolina, West. After the
usual resolutions tho Convention
adjourned sine tlie-
were waited on Sunday Jby the
friends of Governor Tilden and plied
with arguments going to show that
he is the strongest and the most
available candidate in the field. The
indications now arc that he will re
ceive a large vote from the South,
and it is among Southern represen
tatives that tho strongest work is
being done. The-plan of the Tilden
men is to make Southern delegates
believe that he is the only candi
date who can be elected. Tammany
Hall is represented here in forca
They are led by August Bellmout,
Augustus Schell, John Kelly, Roger
A. Pryor and Sunset Cox. They
declare that the nomination of Til
den means the defeat of tho Demo
cratic party next November, and
they assert positively that he is not
able to carry his own State. The
Tammany . men, however do not
seem to be effecting mnch by their
opposition. Tilden certainly has a
majority of the delegates, and it the
majority rule should bo adopted he
would probably be nominated on the
first ballot. There is little hopo of
this. The two-thirds rule will be
adhered to, and in it lies Tilden’s
chief dangev. The Western Demo
cratic influence is being thrown
heavily against him on acconnt of
tho part he took in defeating Gov.
Allen last year, and it may be strong
enough to bring about his defeat.
(Signed) P. W.
Blaine's Failing Health.—He
has been closely confined to his bed
for days with symptoms of extreme
physical prostration. He ho has a
low fever, resulting from malaria,
which, his physicians apprehend, is
assuming typhoid form. A change
of climate is regarded as absolutely
necessary.
Among tho Senators who have
gone to St. Louis, to attend the
Democratic Convention, are Messrs.
Barnum, Saulsbury, Davis, Keman,
Ransom, Dennis, Gordon and Wal
lace.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Powers arc again exercising a
pressure at Belgrade to induce Ser
via to abandon its warlike attitude.
In case of a war between Servia
and Turkey Austria will be neut
ral.
FROM WASHINGTON.
June 27.—Tho proceedings in
neither House of Congress to day
were of general interest. In secret
session the Senate confirmed A. S.
Taylor as Postmaster of Athens,
Georgia.
GENERAL
lace and salutes from the batteries.
The Metropolitan and all tho bishops
have gono to the frontier to bless the
troops.
Athens, Juno 20.—Severe earths
quake shocks occurred at jCornith to
day. Several houses were destroy
ed and the remainder threatened to
collapse. Tho inhabitants havo
fled.
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AS11 FOREIGN
Tho following counties have chos
en delegates up to this time.
FOR COLQUITT.
Columbia, Mitchell, Muscogee,
Clarke, Lee, Dougherty, Randolph.
FOR HARDEMAN.
Bibb, Pierce, Rohois, Irwin.
FOR JAMES.
Fulton.
FOR REESE.
Morgan.
UN1N3TRUCTEIX
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INTELLIGENCE
NEWS.
Presentation of the Colors, of the
State of Georgia, to the Clinch
Rifles.
Detachments of tho Oglethrope
Infantry, companies A and B, and
the Irish Volunteers, under com
mand of Capt. Wilberforce Daniel,
escorted the Clinch Rifles from their
drill room to the base of the
Confederate Monument on Broad
street, Augusta. The Hon. Charles
J. Jenkins presented the flag, on be
half of his Excellency Gov. Smith,
to the Clinch in his usual very ap
propriate and felicitous style. Capt.
Ford of the Clinch, received it and
replied eloquently to Gov. Jenkins
address.' Col. Chas. A. Platt, for
merly commander of tho Clinch,
stood on tho left of Gov. Jenkins’
and held the State Colors. It is
represented to be a beautiful flag.
At the conclusion of Capt. Ford’s
remarks, Capt. W. Daniel proposed
three cheers for Gov. Jenkins, which
were cordially given by the Battal
ion, and the latter gave three cheers
for the Clinch. Both Gov- Jenkins
and Capt. Ford were enthusiastically
cheered at tho conclusion of their ad
dresses. A large number were
present and tho ceremonies, from the
reports of the Augusta papers were
very impressive.
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Juno 28.—The Senate ordered an
investigation of the conduct of Pub
lic Printer Clapp, with power to
send for porsons and papers. The
silver bill was resumed and discus
sed. The House was also engaged
upon the silver question, and asked
a conference, which was granted,
on the army appropriation bill.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE AND FOREIGN
Charleston Centennial.—The Fort
Moultrie celebration was a grand af
fair both in the city and on Sulli
van's Island. General Wade Hamp
ton commanded the military. Gov.
Chamberlain welcomed the citizens
and military. The oration was de
livered by Gen. Kershaw. Tbe city
was brilliantly illuminated.
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