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Cjje^mitJwn Swntor The Issue. The Field* Prior to the Philadelphia Conven tion, we were in anxious doubt, whether that body would adopt a course conciliatory to the South and tending to divide or weaken, by mis leading our forces; or whether, by turning their backs finally on the South and justifying their disregard for the authority of the Constitution they would seek to revive the old uWfar P«rtiz.” »b*» smqulder- ing hate of the majority seclion, to secure a victory, whose fruits must be an lucrease of Federal power and an intensification both of Central oppression and Southern wretched ness. The action of that Conven tion has been taken and leaves no vestige of uncertainty. The line of the Grant Party is clear and pro nounced. It means “no terms with Rebels.” Hatred for the South is the vital bond of its union. Per secution of the South is the motto of its banner. W ith fiendish malice, strongly flanked by avarice and fa naticism, they have discarded all desire for reconciliation. Despising the restraints of the organic law and dead to human sympathy, they aim to convert our past sorrows into ag onizing tortures, though this fair land become a wilderness, howling with barbarism and idolatry. For the first time in the history of the Gov ernment, the President and Cabinet proceeded, in solemn t form, to the Capitol, to invoke special legisla tion. That legislation was none oth er than the re-enactment of the “sus pension of the habeas corpus," which himself had originated—a palpable infraction of the Constitution, arm ing his hands with the power of a Military Despot. A few days later that Party, the die is cast, for victo ry or defeat. Our doom hangs trem bling in the balance. Between the candidate and the policy, there is harmony at least. Grant is military or nothing. A hard-headed, un scrupulous sensualist, bis circum stances are insatiate parasites, with whom office is but a personal per quisite. The success of this faction portends ruin to the South, sure, ab solute, unmitigated. The issue may well evolve desperation, but not despair. “Rise, fellow-men, our country yet remains.” . Undoubtedly there are elements of weakness, too, developed in the Radical tactics, which awaken our reasonable hopes. That the excess es of the administration have re pelled many of its earlier support ers, is apparent. That the Vice Presidential candidate is wholly without strength and even obnoxious except in New England, where Grant needed no strengthening, is admil- • ted. That Grant himself has more enemies in his own party than any other man in it, we confidently be lieve. That the adopted policy of the Party, for the campaign, though powerfully tending to arouse the prejudices, is yet ill adapted to en- dnr« r J !•'. the unaspiring privates of the Party, we think experience will show. These things show the alternative field of battle. Calm reason, in spired by a devout patriotism; or wild prejudice, fired by the demon of partyism. Between them it is, irf great measure, our privilege to elect. The mas3 of Northern voters are as far from consenting that the Re publican institutions of our fathers shall be overthrown and substituted by military despotism, as we are. Let ,the mists of passion so clear away that they can see that such is the inevitable tendency of Grantism and they will rise up against it with terrible energy. Again, the majority of Northern voters are as firmly persuaded, that the Democratic Party, as now or* ganized and named, is responsible for disunion and all its attendant evils, as of their own existence. Taking these two facts, as facts, does it not lollow that a strict Party race between Republicans and Dem ocrats would resolve itself into a sec- lional contest, the “one thing need ful, the very sine qua non, to Grant’s success ? Whocan suppose, for a mo ment, that a high degree of party spir it, involving party prejudice, and sec tional furor could be stirred up, in a contest between Greeley and Giant? Prejudice, at the North, must be near* ly neutral between them. Old antago nisms and the memories thereof, would not blind the minds of men to the impending revolution in our form of Government. Truth would mani fest herself, as through a cloudless medium, and patriotism prompt the nation to the rescue. The crimes of the enemy have put him at our mercy. Let not our own folly cheat us of the victory, so essential to our liberties. Let a broad, generous Patriotism, forgetting the dead iss.ues of the past, and striking hands with all, who honestly strive for Constitutional liberty, sway all our counsels. Let the petty, nar row, crabbed, self-seeking, lust for office, and idolatry of Party, be bu- norI nut of nnr siaht on/t tvo mar appeal, with high hopes, to the Cod of Nations, for deliverance. The Baltimore Gazette,, urgent for a straight-out Democratic nom ination, thus speaks: “Mr. Trumbull is himself a Re publican.—Af a Senator, he ranks i Very Slroig One of lb Unity at Home. It is reported that the Grant Cen tral Executive Committee, recently convoked at Washington City, de termined, that it would be worse than useless, to waste money or la* bor, in the effort to aflect the elec- tios in Georgia. They will invest only where lliere is hope of securing the electoral votes. If that resolve shall be adhered to, we will be hap pily rid of Radical trouble in this State. This is a consummation most devoutly to be wished. Where they disburse money in elections, they will assuredly invest bayonets too.^ The recently passed Enforcement Act opens the door for Federal in terposition, and nothing but assur ance of their failure in Georgia will exempt us from outrage. How can we supply that assurance r Simply by presenting a united front. Let bickerings cease. These produce heartburnings and schism. Schism divides our forces, admits Radical interference and threatens the resto ration of Radical supremacy in coun ty and State. Every impulse of patriotism therefore demands mutu al forbearance in diversity ot opin ion. Let us preserve the true snifil proaching, freely gxvingouropinions in kindness now, and subordinating all selfish and personal- preferences to a common zeal, in working out common destiny, on a common line, as indicated by our common repre sentatives in the Baltimore and Slate Conventions. among the foremost of bis party, and a3 a jurist, he stands so high in the estimation of his Senatorial associ ates that he-has long been conceded, as of right, the Chairmanship of the. Judiciary Committee. When such a man denounces the Supplementa ry Enforcement bill as a bill of abominations—as be had previously denounced the suspension of the ha beas corpus—those who deem the Liberal Republicans with whom Mr Trumbull is affiliated, and whom Mr. Greeley represents, as no belter than Grant Radicals, must either be in love with despotism, or must have sunk so low as to be ready for the manacles that Morton and others are forging to bind them hand and foot.” How the States Move.—Each State is entitled to twice the number of delegates to the Baltimore Demo cratic Convention that it has repre; sentatives and Senators in the Fed eral Congress. The Convention will, therefore consist of 734 delegates. Thirteen States have held their Dcuiuviaiic Own rcutiuno, anj ap- pointed delegates to Baltimore, num bering 308. These States are: Kansas—For Greeley 10 Iowa—For Greeley 22 Indiana—For Greeley 30 Florida—For Greeley ,.... 8 South Carolina—For Greeley 14 Tennessee—For Greeley, 24 Vermont—For Greeley 10 Missouri—For Greeley........ 30 West Virginia—For Greeley 10 New York—For Greeley 70 Louisiana—For Greeley..-. 16 Pennsylvania—For Greeley 58 Wisconsin—For Greeley 10 t for Greeley Tleke1, staunchest and most prominent Radicals in the country is Ex-Gov. D?ra9on of Ohio. He has been interviewed, and gives his rea- why desires the defeat ot j hew ADVERTISEmehts son Greeley, ence 302 For a straight ticket: Delaware .....6 308 Of the Pennsylvania delegation two are reported for a straight out’ nomination. Pennsylvania says noth ing in her platform, but it is state‘d, •and undenied, that her, delegation was to go for Greeley. The New York delegation is lo use itsjudgment in going for Greeley, if it is the hest that can be done. Two of the Louisiana delegation are reported fora straight tickets The remaining States express preference for the Greeley ticket. STILL CRUSHING THE REBELLION, On the day of .the nomination at Philadelphia, Mrs. Grant received the following dispatch : Mrs. President Grant: My warm est congratulations on the General’s enthusiastic nomination for a second term. May God bless him, and preserve his valuable life till every vestige of rebellion is crushed out. Geo. H. Stewart. Gen. Toombs, speaking- at the Atlanta Opera House, on the 14th inst., said: “ So far as the Government of the United States is concerned, I am its enemy. 1 have Itod under foot the flaunting lie a hundred times, and I trust to doit again.” How many Northern voles can a Democratic candidate get on this Toombs platform ? With what rel ish the Grantites will roll this dic tum under their longues as a sweet morsel! How many hundreds, thou sands of voles will be secured to Grant by such madness! Will the law-abidinir. liheEiv-W^-at r“ 1,011 ot iheNortliern people rise up against despotism, if they believe the other alternative to be disunion ? In a sectional controversy, will not the 233 electoral votes of the Noiih pre vail against the 134 of the South ? Is it not supreme folly to make the con test sectional—for or against the Duion—when we are able to fnake it national—for or against the Cousti- lution ? It is true that the South and the Democracy are not for disunion. Still the controlling majority of North ern voters can easily be persuaded, by the massive Grant party, that such is the issue, and the're stilt will be the same to us, as if it were true. Is it not wise to take that argument (and its consequent success) out of their mouth, by taking an undeniably na tional position, with a candidate, who is safe, but certainly not South ern, and whose alliance will secure Democratic majorities in Congress and the Slate Governments ? Are not reason and safely better than prejudice and passion and defeat and enmity and oppression and monar chy ? Gen. A. C. Dodge, the leading Democrat of Iowa, in a letter to the Burlington Gazette, reviews the po litical situation at length, anil m i.hiiv.£vy ,r 'ly e viv?w certain, if the friends of peace and good govern ment shall present a united, unbrok* en front to the enemy ; and, aroused by the great object of a nation’s de liverance from spoliation and mis rule, shall we not conquer mere per sonal and parly prejudice and unite with the Liberal Republicans; 1 think we ought to; and to this end I hope that the Baltimore Convention, to be held on the 9th of July, will approve and adopt the platform and candidates of the Cincinnaii Con vention. Grant’s Letter of Acceptance. Executive Mansion, ) Washington, D. C. June 10, ’72 ) Hon. Thomas Settle, President Nation- al Republican Convention, Paid Slroback, Elisha •Baxter, C. A. Sargent, and others, Vice Presidents: Gentlemen : Your letter of this date advising me of the action of the Convention held in Philadelphia, Pa., on the 5th and 6th of this mbulh, and of my unanimous nomi nation for the Presidency by it, is received. I accept the nomination, and through you return the heartfelt thanks to your constituents for this markofiheir confidence and sup port. If elected in November, and pro tected by a kind Providence in healtli and strength to perform the duties of the high trust conferred, I promise the same zeal and devotion to the good of the whole people for future of my «4fioial *»* »hown-fn ine past. Past experience may guide me in avoiding mistake^ inevitable with novices in all professions, and all occupations. When relieved from the responsibility ol my pres ent trust by the election of a succes sor, whether it be at the end of ibis term or the next, I hope to leave to lym as Executive, a country at peace with outside nations, with a credit at home and abroad, and without embarrassing questions to threaten its future prosperity. With the ex pression of a desire to see a speedy healing of all bitterness of feeling between sections, parties or races of citizens, and the time when the title of citizen carries with it all the pro tection and privileges to the hum blest that it docs to the most exalK ed. I subscribe myself very respect- fullv, Your obedient servant, U. S. Grant. Honry Wilson, the Grant candi date for Vice President, was once a ! cobbler, and his name was Jeremi ah Colbath. He changed his name, entered politics, and lived to be in at the final retirement of the lament ed Schuyler Colfax.—Courier-Jour, uy . V will be seen by refer to hk statements on this point which wegive below, that Governor Denison lelieves if the Democratic party tjniies on Greeley, such action will lead to the overthrow of the Radical party. The arguments pre sented «o forcibly by Gov. Denison why the Radicals should not sup port Greeley, will strike Southern men as strong reasons why the Gree dy ticket should receive the united vote of all the true men of the South. On this point his utterances are a* follows: My judgment is that the election ofMr.,Greeley as the joint candidate of the-Liberal Republicans and Dem ocrats, will be a virtual restoration of the'Democratic party to the con trol of ther Government. For the purposes of the present canvass I regard it as immaterial whether the Baltimore convention accepts or re jects Mr. Greeley, because, in my opinion, the Republican party has a well defined majority in enough of the States tp ensnre the election of the ^nominees of the Philadelphia Convention; but looking to the(fu ture, I should regard a union of Lib eral Republicans and the Democrat ic party as pregnant with mischief to the country, as such a union might constitute the basis of a new party organization, in which the Democratic party, from its superior numbers, would have and exercise absolute control. Wnile this larger elemenMfugbl, consent to 8 ,ve P 1 " 0 ? 1 * inefit positions to the more especial representatives oi the Liberal ele ment, the power to control these functionaries would necessarily be in the largei section of the new par ty, namely, the Democratic, and they would therefore be compelled to obey the demands and the policies of the Democratic portion, just as the Northern representatives of the old Democratic party were com pelled to obey the demands of the slave power——the controlling element of the party. Thus would be wit nessed the practical restoration of the Democratic party to power in the Government, and in my judg ment, «u eh a restoration would be more mischievous to the country than worfld be the restoration of the Democratic party, pure and simple, as in the latter case the people would be mor6 vigilant to detect its wrong designs than if the nominal headot the party were one who had enjoyed the confidence of the loyal people of the country. So that, if this view is correct, and Mr. Greeley should be forest city 0 F OfNDBT, FENWICK STREET, NEAR GEORGIA R. R-, NEW YORK 8T0RE Grand Clearance Sale! BIG BARGAINS! BIG BARGAINS ! BIG BARGAINS! Immense Redaction 01 oar Whole iUcfc, AUGUSTA, GA., JOSEPH NEAL, Gen’I Supt.. GEO. R. LOMBARD, Prop’t. MANUFACTURER OF PORTABLE & STATIONERY STEAM ENGINES THE LARGEST STOCK CITY AT THE— IN TH| AND j — ^4. ,, ouiu 11me rpalt^r Loar p .. , r ~‘"• l '" V*" tives or purposes might he, his acts, being controlled by the Democratic or disloyal element, would accord with its demands, and the country, while quietly reposing on its confi dence in Mr. Greeley, would find itself betrayed by the power that controlled him. I do not believe there is any perfect safety to the Re public without the total demolition of the Democratic party as a party organization ; and I cannot regard, him as a friend to the country, how ever pure and patiiotic he may be lieve bis motives to be, who will aid to restore the Democratic party to power, whether in its independent organization or as a controlling part of a new party. The following letter to a gentle man in Macon county, Ala., we find in the Montgomery Advertiser: , Washington, May 30, ’72. } My Dear Sir—In reply to your) letter, [ am confident that the gen-' eral acquiescence in the nomination of Mr. Greeley. by the Democratic party will secure his election, and that sud{ a rfesuli will remove all the difficulties which the South now rerts under. I hope the delegation from Alalama to the Baltimore Con vention will he this way of thinking. It is the only means of removing from power the odiou9 party now afflicting the whole country. 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