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( l K r? V" r—T \S “ATLANTA WEEKLY ▼OB THE WEEK EHDIHO ■\VEOSKSDAV. JUNE 30th, 1873. EDITOBIALS BT MB. STEPHENS— woe 3, no. i.i s&SSSSsKsasrs \w< ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY; JUNE 26, 1872. WHOLE 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 ■■ 1 , , , !er “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 ? .qfi