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▼OB THE WEEK EHDIHO
■\VEOSKSDAV. JUNE 30th, 1873.
EDITOBIALS BT MB. STEPHENS—
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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY; JUNE 26, 1872.
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N O M B E «
107.
the Rome Courier, p*g e ® : Comments
Hill* Speech, 1:
editorials—
The Meeiii'ff of th# *‘Aburmed” *t Now York, The
cStatuti-:-, on the O.B _Democratic j
"(Irani and his policy deserve the very
Meeting in Fulton county—three Article*, page 3: highest Credit."—HORACE GbKELKT,
Comment.on ***** of the Co^tt^nalut of ***■ #- . , ,
Anausu-two Article*, The.-whole Question Ho-
▼lowed. Who *re Bolter*, The Con?tituted Authori
ty, *nd othor article*, 1:
POLITICAL ARTICLES—
Hon. B. H. Hill* Speech, page 3 and 3: The
Moral of the Indiana Convention, page 3: Consider
Well, Meeting in Dooly county, page 6: Quil-
man county Meeting. Cobb oonnty Meeting 6: Pro
ceeding* of the Great Maas Convention of the
Party, 8;
HUMOROUS—
Excerpt* of Fun and Humor, 8:
MISCELLANEOUS—
Entertainment at Union Point, Sickening Out
rage, page 8: The Killing of Palmer, Items, Ac., 8.
POETRY—
Three Ki**ea of Farewell, Some Poetry, page 7:
A GRAND SUCCESS.
A. Glorious Triumph of
True Democratic Principles.
The Democracy of Fulton County Rally
to the Support of their Right*
and the Integrity of the Party
General Grant never has been beaten,
and he never will be.”—Horace Greeley.
"Thepeople of the United Stales know
General Grant—have known all about him
since Dondson and Vicksburg; they do nol
know his slanderers, and do not care to
know them.”—Horace Greeley. j
"While asserting the right of every Re-
publican to his untrammeled choice of a can
didate for next President until a nomina
tion is made, J venture to suggest that Gen.
Grant trill be far better qualified for that
momentous trust in 1872 than he was in
1868.”—Horace Greeley.
‘A Democratic national triumph means
a restoration to power of those who deserted
their seats in Congress and their places
under the last Democratic Pressdent to
plunge the country into the Red sea of seces
sion and rebellion. Though you paint an
inch thick, to this complexion you must
come at last. The brain, the heart, the soul
qf the present Democratic parly is the rebel
dement at the South, with its Northern
allies and sympathisers.”—Horace Gree
ley. . / .• nl-i-j. -.If. hi**
According "to
meat, what has
INTOLEH.AKTOE
UNFAIRNESS REBUKED.
The Democrat* of Fulton not to be Put
Down by Wire-Working Machinery.
In their Majesty they Declare their Un
qualified Adherence .to the True
Faith, and Refuse to be Dicta
ted to by a Clique -with Hel
lish Object* In view, and
! Refaae to be Misrepre
sented and Placed
in a False Posi
tion Before the
World.
Mr. Hill’s Speech.
In our weekly issue, of this week, will
I be found the speech of Hon. B. H. Hill,
delivered in this city on the night of the
14th instant, urging upon Democrats the
support of Mr. Greeley for the Presi
dency in the present canvass
The speech has been characterized as
the ablest and most eloquent that has as
I yet been made, or perhaps can be made
on bis side of the question. How this
is, we shall leave for others to determine.
We give it to oar readers in full, that
they may judge for themselves; but to us
more, he was in favor of all that "farce”
by which the 14th and 15th Amendments
were incorporated in the Constitution,
and which carried such alarm to many
of the best and wisest men of the Re
publican Party. This, we suppose, nei
ther Mr. Hill nor any other man will
ever venture to deny. Moreover, Mr.
Greeley, to-day holds the same senti
ments on the subjeet of these gross usur
pations of power—these Congressional
acts “outside of the Constitution”—that
he did then. L [.vaih.
Let our readers bear all these facts in
mind also,'in considering the merits of
Mr. Hill’s speech, in commending him to
the favor of Democrats as their candi
date for President
2. Another of the most extraordinary
statements of this speech, deserving spe
cial notice, is one in reference to the New
Departure movement—which, as our
r .aders know, was, in our judgment, no
thing but a scheme devised to prevent the
alarmed Republicans—the best of their
party—from uniting with the three mil
lion Democrats in bringing popular con
demnation upon the outrages and iniqui
ties by which the Constitution had been
attempted to be annulled, and have in
corporated in it parts carried by fraud,
perfidy and force. 1 ^ ttj
Mr. Hill, as many others, very errone
ously attributes the origin of this “New
Departure” policy to Mr. Vallandigliam.
Not so, by any means, as we understand
it. Mr. Vallandigham’s Resolution re
ferred to the amendments, so-called, as j plunging
Mr. Hill’s announce- {
caused alarm in this
country, even in the Republican ranks,
is the continued series of usurpations on
the part of the Ruling Dynasty at
Washington, beginning with the subver
sion of the Government of ten States of
the Union—progressing with the imposi
tion of amendments to the Constitution
•by : force—and ending with what is
knojvn as the Election Rill. Are not
these; therefore—all of them, or at least
the principles upon which they rest—the
proper living issues in the present can
vass? Should they not be made so, by
all who see and feel that there is danger
—imminent danger—in the tendency of
affairs?
We think so; and we leave all to judge
how far Mr. Hill has made out a hopeful
prospect of our escape from these dangers
by supporting Mr. Greeley, who has been
one of the chief actors in all these out
rages upon popular rights, and constitu
tional law, from the first down to the
last—even to the Ku-KIox, Habeas
their grievances, after having exhausted
every other means; and he who denies
the perfect authority, regularity and le
gality of this proceeding, as being the
very highest, is not a good Democrat.
No true desoendent of the sons of ’76,
can urge such a plea as this, f^It is the
highest court, whose decision is not only
final, bat when fairly expressed is infal
lible. This high court was appealed to,
as a last resort, after every other means
of redress had been exhausted. It has
sustained those making the appeal. It is
overwhelmingly against the Constitu
tion, and against those who have made a
strong and determined effort to debauch
the Democratic Party of Fulton county.
Unauthorized! Come neighbor; if you
intend to remain a Democrat, yon must
to advocate such undemocratic
doctrines. no » *»l;
The Democratic Party of Fulton county
constitute a higher authority than Thus.
W. J. Hill and the twelve members of
his Committee, who have disregarded
their wishes and denied to them thftir
Corpus suspension and Election acts ? rights. These twelve members, and the
There is nos one of the enormities
which Mr. Hill so justly portrayed in the
opening part of his speech, which Mr.
Greeley did not urge and sanction, and
vftiich he does not now approve ?
If he, therefore, is the only “star of
hope’’ for the “new Bethlehem” of Con
stitutional Government in this country,
God alone, in His infinite wisdom, and
mercy, knows what is to become of us in
the depths of that rain to which we are
I E. S.
All hail the power of troth, and the
triumph of true principles! Democrats
of Fnlton! You have stood nobly to. _ _
true principles 6ver since the war 1 The vo . r °* democrats, or friends of Con
it seems that if this is the best showing matters purely defacto—not dejure—just
that can be made for Mr. Greeley, he
has bat little to commend him to the fa-
unsullied banner of true Democracy, and
Liberty has been held aloft in Fulton
ever since the close of the war, as in no
other place in Georgia or the South.
None of the blandishments of pro-,
fessedbut treacherous friends, nor the ifc F°P er ’ however, not to let at pass
stitntional Government in this country,
by whatever name they be called.
To the readers of The Sun, no review
of this address is nocessary for a refuta
tion of its general positions. We think | ]
as we have held them ever since they
were proclaimed as parts of the Consti- j
tution. The “New Departure” Platform
of Ohio, last year, was not Mr.\VaUandi-
gharn's Resolution. ![t was another resolu
tion of very different import and mean
ing, according to our understanding of
it. It was modeled upon the basis of
the 9 th resolution of the Harrisburg
corruptions of plunder, nor
nations of “foes within” seeking the.
destruction of the Party, nor the assaults | most extraordinary statements;
of the enemy, have ever been able to
move the Fulton County Democracy from
Chairman, have violated the high trust
confided to them, and are no more worthy
to occupy their places, They have been
signally rebuked by the great mass of
the party, and ought forthwith to resign.
They ought to have resigned the mo
ment they refused to accede to the
written request of nearly one thousand
Democrats in the county, and to hear a
delegation who desired to lay before the
Committee, the wishes of a very large
majority of the Democratic Party.
For this Committee to refuse to re
dress the wrongs of the humblest Demo
crat iu the county, or for it to sustain
any one in the infliction of a wrong npon
a single member of the Party—let alone
so great a wrong npon the whole Party—
it deserves, not only rebuke and con
demnation, but impeachment and dis-
They were, every man G f I P kcement from P osifcion - This is not
■> were selected to
Th* Whole Question. Reviewed.
The Constitution of Sunday morning
has a leading editorial on the Great Suc
cessful Patriotic Mass Convention of the
Democratic Party of. Fulton county, a
few points in which we propose to notice.
It says:
“Not s Democrat participated in the meeting or
took part in the balloting except the dissatisfied.'
That’s so.
the rnachi- withoat caUi ^ attention to a few of its Pla * f ° r “l , the “station them, dissatisfied with the reprehensible the kind of service the J
leekintr t w e most prominent points and some of its embodied the doctrine of the ‘New De-1 conduct of thos6 who took control o£ the I perform.
1. Mr. Hill, in speaking of theUsurpa-
tions of Congress in the matter of the
their moorings. The, have adhered to Beowatoicarai metres, isajm:
. , ,,, , , The party in power seemed to find no end of whst
principles, boldly declared and with might be justly termed war measure*, especially a*
equal bo!anessmamtainea,fromthe very
g ra t called the reconstruction acts, by which the govern-
1 meets of ten of the State* were absolutely subver-
| parture” in its essence.
The statement bf Mr. Hill on this sub
ject, to which we have referred, is in these
words:
I wish yon to understand there was no member of
the Democratic party, North or South, ever dreamed,
under any circumstances, of conceding the justice t • ,,
or the righteousness of the reconstruction policy. J “ires ine success
meeting of the 15th instant, and with the
action of the Chairman on that day. In
this they have shown themselves to be
True Democrats; for no one who favors
fair and honorable conduct and who de-
of True Democratic
The Constitution says:
rite first delegates represent the party, the second
a portion of the party. The first were elected by
authority, the second without sny authority what
ever.
According to this, 114 men who voted
a Greeleyite ticket are the Democratic
Parly of Fulton county; and 809. True
ted, and other governments created by Congreeeional 1 uttered it.
power, organized in their stead. They not only
passed amendments to the Constitution to preserve
In response to the call published in
onr columns, a very large and enthusias- ,
tic meeting assembled to-da, at the City I
Hull at 11 o'clock, (Saturday.) We shall SOSSSfSSSSZS^SSSl^
give the fall proceedings in our morning ciusiveiy of a war nature.
.... ,, , ,. . . , I Force was the power employed to govern thiB
edition. W6 annex tlie resolutions which country in a very large degree. Not only had these
treru uuuuimousl, and enthusiasUeally im “f na
adopted—not a dissenting voice. —* * *— —— 1
ought ££**& biu.h 0n o^«S^e‘toi£ Cl i?ho W hi C veI principle, could «e satisfied with the I Democrats are only a portion of the Par
How. Mr. Hill conld make this state
ment in the face of the Resolution of
the Harrisburg Convention, of last year,
when the “New Departure” first showed
its head with its real colors, - we cannot
That Resolution was in these
words
“ Rttolved, That we recognize the binding obliga
tion of all the provisions ol tbe Constitution of
“ the United States, as they now exist; and we dep-
recate the discussion of issues which have been
settled in the manner and by the authority Con
stitutionally appointed.*'
Was not this an express declaration
that amendments to the Constitution
into the Constitution put a construction upon those
. . amendments which gave absolute power to the Gen-
Tho meeting was composed Of the very oral Government, a construction centralizing the
. . ' - |.i,- , government to the extent of obliterating State Con-
best men in tlie city and the country, utitmions. "Where the end was to be no man could
who were deeply moved at the wrong telL This state of things alarmed—I use the proper
which has boon attempted to bo fastened
On them. They came to assert and vm- publican party. They saw that measures whicn they
dicate their principles, and right glo- Lad adopted, in a moment of passion, and which
riously have they done their work. „
The meeting, though enthusiastic, WiUS j the party in power absolutely intended to subvert .
orderly. Though nil trero elated with MgfflSST^*S3SS°88teI
the result, there was not the slightest I -wasa sufficient number of patriotic men in the Unit-
act or word that manifested an improper ed States to correct this evil, if by any means they
Spirit! combine together.
Tlio following are the resolutions: I These indisputable historic facts, thus
1. Jfemfrod. That the Democracy 0j Net forth by Mr. ffiil, mnot ho home in
Fulton county adhere to the principles mind by every reader of the speech, who
enunciated in the platform adopted would justly appreciate its merits as a
by our State Convention, held in this w holo, looking to the object intended.
a^ Hemmonnoanth. groat fact that the
6tand upon tlie principles of the Democratic party Governments of ten States of the Union
of the Union, bringing into special prominence as _ . , . , , - ,
applicable to the present extraordinary condition of were overthrown, “ absolutely Subverted,
they thought were necessary after the war ended,
were to be repeated and repeated, until it Beemed '^yhich had been carried. 8S Mr. Hill him-
11.. in rrnn-nr obonltlthlv IntADnPfl til BPnVfiT’r I ’
self asserts, by force, were of binding obli
gation; and not only this, but that they
had been incorporated in the fundamen
tal laws as valid parts of it “ in the man
ner and by the authority constitutionally
appointed?” Does not this Resolution
broadly and unequivocally concede and
indorse, yea, sanction, the rightfulness
of these measures, .by which those ini
quitous frauds were claimed to be incor
porated in the Constitution as valid parts
the conhtry, the unchangeable doctrino that this is I - i.b „_a -t cfv. tmaminmnio in I thereof, and which had so alarmed the
corporated in the Constitution of the »«“«<**»f Bepabtamns as to thennfe
... United Slates by force; and other Mte
action of that meeting. They were “dis
satisfied,” and had good reason to be so.
The popular vindication of their ex
pressed dissatisfaction is gratifying. We
rather think the Constitution looks upon
those grapes as being slightly Bour.
The whole affair was a one-sided an unauthorized
concern, representing only one phase of opinion and
a portion of the party.*'
Suppose we admit the allegation of
onesidedness and that it was only a por
tion of the party. We ask which is the
strongest and most truly Democratic side,
and portion; the Constitution's favorite!
“side” represented by 114, or the Great
Masses of the Party represented by 809?
That it was a minority and a very considerable
minority is undoubted.*'
Of course the 809 was a minority and
Retolyed, That in the approaching election the
■ .ocratio party Invites everybody to co-operate
Demi
with them in a zealous determination to change tho
present usurping and corrupt administaaiion by
placing In power men who are true to the principles
of Constitutional government and to a faithful and
economical administration of public affairs.
2. Resolved, That the Democratic par
ty of this connty favor the nomination
of Democratic candidates at Baltimore.
3. Resolved, That we will acquiesce in
and support any action that may be ta
ken by the Baltimore Convention in
maintenance of the fundamental princi
ples of the Democratic party. 1
Resolved further, That this Committee
recommend the adoption of the follow
ing resolution :
Resolved, That this meeting now pro
ceed to the election of six delegates to
represent the Demacratic Party of Ful
ton county in the State Convention, to
assemble June 26th, in the city of At
lanta.
Resolved further, That the Chair ap
point three managers of election, who
shall open the polls at once and proceed
to receive ballots for six delegates, and
that those six receiving he highest num
ber of votes shall be duly declared
elected,' and shall receive the certificates
of election from the Chairman of this
meeting of election.
Resol red further, That the polls be kept
open until 7 o'clock p. m.
The Polls were opened and voting
lor Delegates commenced. The Polls
will be kept open till 7 o’clock to-night.
Let every True Democrat turn out and
vote.
Whoever Heard ot a Majority Bolting ?
Thus asked tne Constitution several
times last week with a grand air of tri
umph. Those who it is claimed didn’t
bolt, polled 114 votes, and those whom
the Constitution calls bolters polled 809.
Neighbor, have you yet heard tell of a
majority bolting ?
passed,tending directly to centralization.
This, he says, “justly alarmed many of
the best and wisest men of the Republi
can party.”
But we ask at this point, was Mr.
Greeley one of them ? That is the pres
ent most pertinent question. Was he
not among the chief actors in all this
horrible drama in which near ten millions
of people were put under absolute mili
tary role and denied every civil right
known to the law—every security for the I force, as Mr. Hill says they were, are they
not
strange that Mr. Hill, or that any man
conld have made the statement he did,
without a blush ? rj* mhoH
3. Bathe farther says
Unfortunately, then, another great and good man,
Hr. Stephens, commenced editing a paper, and his
paper was fall of statements that these amendments
should be treated as nullities, and when the Demo
cratic candidate was elected, that he was to proclaim
them aa such.
How, or why, pray, was this unfortu
nate?
If these amendments were carried by
usurpation, by fraud, by perfidy and
ty. The election of a set of avowed
Greeleyites, some of whom certainly, are
not even professed Democrats, by 114
men, on an occasion where True Demo
crats were not allowed an opportunity
peaceably to express their preferences, is
declared to be under authority; but the
selection of true, tried, sound and un
questioned Democrats by 809 of the
same class, under the sanction of the
highest authority, exercised in its most
solemn form, peaceably and orderly, is
declared to be without any authority what
ever.
This is in strict keeping with the doc
trines and teachings of the Centralists—
the authors of all our present woes and
the 114 was a majority. Who doubts it ? I the enemies of Liberty—the conspirators
The allegation that it was “unauthoriz- against the Democratic Party—the New
ed,” is one of the mogt unfounded and Departurists—the Greeleyites—the any
unjust that has been nttered by the Con- things to beat Grant, whose , teachings
stitution in this discussion. The meeting tend only to the certain securing of his
of Saturday last had the V6ry highest election. Perhaps our neighbor will ob
possible authority, and has the highest ject to being classed in this category.—
sanction of regularity and legality that We don’t place him there, we only say
any political meeting possibly can have, his doctrines and teachings are in the
This plea of a want of legality, and being same line. Neighbor, come back to the
unauthorized, is the weakest, shallowest, old and trne paths before you go too far.
most inconsistent, and undemocratic of A few steps farther may land you iu the
all; and we ore, and have been, all the camp of. the enemy from which there
in a more eminent degree than any other
place in the whole South since the war,
they have enjoyed; and which they will
continue to enjoy, is, that they have vin
dicated their honor; have scorned the
blandishments and allurements of the
treacherous and the smiling foes who
have endeavored to debanch them. The
Banner of the Party is still held aloft
in its parity, unstained. This is their
luxury, and the rejection of the Del
egates chosen by the True Democracy,
cannot deprive them of this glorious
“luxury.” They propose to enjoy it for
ever.
Tlie Constituted. Authority.
It is pleaded by some that the Execu
tive Committee of the Democratic Party
of Fulton county is fhe Party’s author
ized exponent, and that whatever is done
withoat their sanction is unauthorized,
and therefore cannot be reipected.
But suppose that Committee violates
the law and the Constitution of the
Party—transcends its authority, disre
gards the will of the Party, refuses to
redress or even hear the grievances of a
large majority, or even of a single member',
or suppose that Committee sustain its
Chairman iu an attempt to fasten a fraud
and an outrage npon the True Democracy
of the country; shall we submit? Is
there no redress in such a case ?
This plea that the action of the true
Democracy of Fulton, is ontside of au
thority, is the same old Tory doctrine
that the ‘‘King can do no wrong.” It is
the very essence of the doctrine of the
Centralists of this day, who are trying
to debauch the Democratic Party, as the .
first step towards ^ntralizing the Gov
ernment, and putting an end to Liberty;
and everybody who urges this plea in
this case, is contributing his influenoe
to the success of Centralism and the es
tablishment of a Despotism.
Whs sirs Bolters t
The Constitution calls the Trne Demo
cracy of Fulton county, who quietly re
tired from the meeting of the 15th, bolt
ers; and this stigma applied to them, is
equally applicable to all the 809, who»by
honest ballots, sustained them on Satur
day last, as well as to the two thousand
and over who did not attend the meeting
last Saturday, but who sustain these so-
called bolters heart and soul.
The truth is, this charge of bolting
comes with a very bad grace, is very un
just, and is very improperly employed in
this case. The True Democracy were in
a majority at the meeting on the 15tb,
but were unable to be heard. The chair
man would not entertain their motions,
and refused to give them a lair showing.
If order had been preserved by the chair
man, and fairness accorded to the True
Democracy, no one would have left the
meeting, and no one would have ever
called for another, no matter what the
result might have been.
But when no chance was given them
to exercise their rights peaceably, they
had to take one of three alternatives;
either tamely to submit like cravenheart-
ed creatures, destitute of true manhood,
or enforce their rights by a physical
contest and by physically overpowering
the disturbers and disorganizers, or pur
sue the course they did. They knew
their strength—they knew their rights;
and preferred to enforce those rights and
exercise their power peaceably and legit
imately; and they have done so.
They are not boilers ! Every step pur
sued by these representative men and
True Democrats has been legitimate and
commendable. They, in the interest of
peace, submitted to wrong, insult and
outrage, on the 15th instant, rather than
resen; to brute force and bloodshed. A
more, praiseworthy, sublime, heroic, mo-
ral spectacle, has never been witnessed
in the politics of this country.
while, greatly astonished at its being
publicly urged by a professed Democrat
ic journal.
will be no retorn.
Bat we have not space to review all the
| errors and incongruities of our neighbor.
protection of person or property ? "We
maintain that he was.
"What Mr. Hill says upon the subject
constitutes one of his most extraordi
nary statements to which we have re
ferred. It is in these words:
Mr. Greeley hss ssid snd done nunjr things which
I need not teU you I do not spprove—you do not
approve; but Mr. Greeley ha* slwsy* been in f»Tor
of one policy which relieves me of the most TiUl
objectionjto hie support. He never hss at sny time
approved of those odious feature* of the reconstruc
tion policy which disfranchised the virtue and intel
ligence of the South and enfranchised the ignorance
and Tice of the South.
Did he not approve and urge the pas
sage of these Reconstruction measures,
in which this disfranchisement and
enfranchisement were carried? Every
man at all conversant with the history of
the times, knows that he did. It is one
of the great facts of history that can
never be obliterated or erased, that he
did urge the passage of these Bills with
these most odious features in them,
whether he approved them or not. He
was thereby as much responsible for
them as any man living. But that he
did so approve, does not rest upon this
information. In his correspondence
with ex-Governor Herschel Y. Johnson,
he distinctly avowed this approval! Nay,
not necessarily nullities, under a rightful
administration of the Government?
Is there a man in the United States
who conld have the face, before anyCourt,
to maintain that these measures had been
carried “ in the manner and by the au
ihority constitutionally appointed ?” If so,
he has a harder face than their author
had; for he openly announced that they
were based upon assumptions of power
outside of the Constitution, that is, upon
nothing but bold, daring usurpation.
One of the most unfortunate things
that can befall any people, in our judg
ment, is, for their rights and liberties to
be in the hands of " trusted custodians, ”
who will not only connive at usurpations
upon them, but will even give these
usurpations their approval and sanction.
This is the true “origin—the mean
mg—the purpose—and philosophy of
what some have styled the New Depart
ure.” The end is the Greeley move
ment, and it is, from beginning to end,
brim full of something very different
from what we consider “patriotism.”
But we have not space for farther no-
The meeting of the 15th was regularly He claims to have stood ;ip boldly—aye
called by the constituted authorities of very boldly—for the right and for party
the Party, organization; but the Chair- unity. Save the mark! Is it standing
man of that meeting, who is also the up for the right to plead, urge and con-
Chairman of the Executive Committee tend that the True Democracy of Fulton
of the county, did not discharge his county shall be represented in the State
duty—did not preside fairly—did not Convention by men whom they have
give the majority of the meeting a fair | not chosen and with whose political
chance. Their rights were trampled
upon and outraged through the misfea
sance of T. W. J. Hill. The True De
mocracy who were thus outraged were
resolved to have their wrongs redressed.
For this, they first appealed to the Com
opinions they do not agree—nay by men
who are not Democrats and who make
that broad avowal ?. Is this boldly
standing up for the right ? Is it boldly
standing np for party unity, to place the
Party in a false position before the
mittee, which had the power asked for; | world, and urge it quietly to occupy that
position ? Neighbor, isn’t that cheeky ?
“There is "but one. mournful feature connected
-with the decision of the State Convention. If it
should happen to be against our worthy bolting
friends, how in the world they are going to keep up
the luxury of bolting we cannot see.’*
This characterizing the ‘Democratic
tiee of the positions or statements
this speech to-day.
cf
bnt that Committee not only refused the
redress, .but refused to hear a delegation
of true and tried Democrats stale their
grievances—thus contemptuously adding I
insult to injury.
Only one more remedy remained. It I Party, in the legal exercise of its power,
is one that is always at hand, is all-pow
erful, and the right of which is unques
tioned by any except the Constitution in
this case, and the Centralists who are
aiming to subvert the principles of (this
Government, and deprive the people of
their Liberty. It is the sacred right of
the'people to manage things as they
please, and to hav'e their will carried out
—notwithstanding the objection of those
who may sit in places where they ima
gine themselves clothed with a little
brief authority.
The people in their majesty, have ex
ercised thejr inalienable right to redress
as a set of bolters, is very thoughtless
and very incorrect, as we have shown in
another article. .
But if the Convention shall exclude
the legally and regularly chosen dele
gates of the Party and admit the unsound
bogus delegation of a turbulent faction,
who are not true Democrats, and who
wers irregularly chosen, it will be a bold,
reckless usurpation, wholly unworthy of
a Democratic Convention of the State of
Georgia. They can do as they please
abont this:
But the “luxury” which the Democra
cy of Fulton county now enjoy; which
Not So.
The Memphis Avalanche of the 21st
inst. says:
The XUIth Amendment abolished African slavery.
Hon. Linton Stephens says it is a fraud, and de
mands that it be set aside. In thiB he is logical and
consistent from his standpoint. His doctrine is
ood, square, old-lashioned Democratic doctrine,
iut the war knocked this doatrine into smithereens.
That’s what’s the matter.
Hon. Linton Stephens never said any
such thing, and never made any such de
mand. Such a demand would not be
logical and consistent from his ftand-
point, and it is not good, square, old-
fashioned Democratic doctrine. Sinoe
the Avalanche has gone over to Radical
ism, it has no more regard for trnth than
the most reckless and unprincipled of the
Radical party. It would be difficult to
gather up a greater amount of untruth in
so short a space.
► • *
A Different Way of Presenting It.
Th* Vote Yzbtkbdxt.—The Democratic vote in
Fulton in 1870, was 3,14i. The bolters yesterday
.-goVBOO after scouring the oonnty thoroughly. This
leaves 3,333 against them.—Constitution of Sunday.
Suppose we put it this way. The Dem
ocratic vote in Fulton in 1870, was
3,144. The Greeleyites on the 15th, after
secretly plotting, drilling and plying
every means, both fair and unfair for
two weeks, got 114. This leaves 3.030
against them; while the True Democracy,
with only 24 hours notice, voted the 809;
and more than three-fourth of the entire
party are with this True Democracy.
This is the fair way to state it, neighbor.
Try again. See if you cant improve oq
it
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“Whoever heard of a majority b^® r "
? ” < n by
This question has been r^pea^ fo ‘ r
asked by our neighbor, the Const it z.
daring the last week. Has he ever i
heard of a case ?
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