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VOL. 3, NO. 6.}
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1872.
"WHOLE
NUMBER
103.
JUDGE LINTON STEPHENS.
CONTENTS
Pnpllc Sleeting in Hancock County—
.Resolutions . of Sorrow — Eloquent
Speech of Hon. Charles W. DuBose.
“ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,’
FOB THE WKXK ENDING
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31st, 1873.
J^HSLATIVE INVESTIGATIONS—
Abstracts of Reports—on the conduct of B. B.
Bulloch, page 2; on the Auditing Board of the West
ern Aptian tic Itai I road, 4.
THE GUBERNATORIAL CONVENTION—6. _
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE—psgeT3
and 4 *
HONORS TO THE MEMORY OF HON. LINTON
STEPHENS—
Eulogy bj^Samuol Barnett, 3; Eulogies by Hon. G.
F. Pierce, Jr., Hon. Julian Hartridge, Hon. Warren
Ailcou, and Col. A R. Lamar, 6; Proceedings of &
Public Meeting in Glynn county, 1; in Hancock
county, 1; Poem, 8.
PUBLIC MEETING IN GREENE COUNTY—2.
POLITICAL ARTICLES—
Groeley or Grant—* Communication by "Old
Democracy;" Old Wilkes True to Principle; Accept
ance of Got. Smith, 1.
HON. W. H. F. HALL'S LETTER TO HIS CON
STITUENTS-6.
ADVERTISEMENTS—7 and 8.
TELEGRAMS, Commercial, Tolegrapliic Market Re-
ptrts, Ac., 8.
No Greeley In Ilis’n.
We have a letter from a gentleman in
the interior of the State of New York,
sending us the money for subscription to
The Sun. After giving particulars about
his subscription, he adds: 3
“If you have turned in favor of Gree
ley, give the money to the poor widow of
some Confederate soldier; bat for God’s
sake don’t send the paper to me.’’
“ Like the gods of Greece, must Ho also
l>c a Devil 5”
Editors Daily Sun: Heretofore, the
true Democrats, who are unwilling to af
filiate with Radicalism in any shape, or
under any name, have cast no slurs on
those who were once with them. Now,
however, beginning to experience tho
stings of a guilty conscience, those gen
tlemen of expediency who have sold
their birthright for a “mess of pottage,”
cry out to the true Democracy, “if not
for Greeley, you are for Grant.”
Having forsaken the true principles of
the party, they are unwilling to allow
others to adhere to them, and hence
their cry'of “Greeley or Grant." '
'J’Far bo it from me to condemn my old
friends, who aro led astray by the light
of this new lamp of expediency; for
many of them honestly believe the “mi
rage of the desert’’ now leading them on
to destruction, to be lakes of pure wa
ter that will quench their burning thirst
I find it in my heart only to pity them;
bnt because I do not ohoose to follow
them, they must not turn and curse mo,
crying out “Greeley or Grant!”
He who’ believes in the final triumph
of truth, and of right, can afford to be
charitable, although black clouds threat
en him and make dark his pathway.
The white race of this country have
had but one practical fight to make,since
the new order of things was forced upon
them, and that fight is opposition to the
social equality of the races.
Those “equal rights” puritanical phi
losophers of New England—feeling se
cure in their icy region of the far North
—can well afford to preach their iniqui
tous doctrine of the social equality of the
races and miscegenation, with Charles
Sumner and Horace Greeley as their
leaders.
To Sumner and Greeley we are in
debted for the greatest of our woes, and
in what respect have they changed?
Since the war, hand in hand together,
they nave continued their iniquitous
apostleship, and making Grant their
chief instrument, have preyed upon us
through him, he being the lash, and
their bands only exercising the power
which they have held.
I choose neither to lick the hands or
adore the lash. Grant, the lash, is not to
be supported—and Greeley, the power—
honest only in bis philosophical inquifl
ties—can never be my leader.
Greeley is claimed to be honest—but
from my stand point, I cannot so consid
er him. Coming, as it is claimed, from
the ranks of poor white men, he has
raised himself by the force of his great
intellect, however wrongly applied, to a
high position; and now seeks to obtain a
place of power, from whence, by bis dec
laration of “equal rights regardless of
oreed, or clime, or color”—to inflict the
greatest of curses upon the very class
from which he sprung—namely: their
destruction as a race, by mongrelizing
them.
Since the war, opposition to mongrel-
ism and miscegenation have held alike
the educated and jtiMducated white
misses of the SoutiK.;l6^:etlier in one
common sentfbient; bfit with an acknowl
edgment of equality, poverty and igno
rance will bo no longer able to draw nice
distinctions, and will become the step
ping stone by^whicli this great'evil will
reach wealth and intelligence—thus en
gulfing the white race entire—as has
been demonstrated by the Mexico of
. to-day, Central America, and all other
countries where this same experiment of
. expediency has been tried.
This may be laughed at to-day; but
the laughing of the deluded and the
The citizens of Hancock county, met
at the court house in Sparta, on Satur
day, the 20th inst., to take action with
reference to the death of Judge Linton
Stephens.
On motion of CoL H. A Clinch, Mr.
William Fraley was called to the chair,
and James A. Harley appointed Secre
tary.
Col. C. W. DuBose, having stated, in
an impressive manner, the object for
which the meeting, had been called,
moved that a Committee of nine be ap
pointed to draft resolutions expressive of
the feelings of the citizens of the coun
ty, with reference to the death of Judge
Stephens.
The Chairman, after making a few re
marks with regard to the solemnity of
the occasion, and the importance of the
lessons which it should teach, appointed
the following as the Committee: Col.
Chas. W. DuBose, Messrs. John L. Cul
ver, J. J. Lawrence, H. H. Culver, Jas.
Harris, L. L. Lamar, H. A Clinch, F.
L. Little, and H. L. Middlebrook3. The
Committee reported the following:
We, the fellow citizens of tne late
Judge Stephens, in mournful remem
brance of his death, which occurred at
his home in this county on Sunday after
noon, the 14th instant, have this day
met to pay a suitable and heart-felt
tribute to his memory. The intimate ac
quaintance of onr people with the de
ceased began in the year 1852, at which
time he located in our midst as an at
torney at law. Since then, his splendid
abilities as an advocate and judge, his
power as a political debater, his well-
deserved fame, have been acknowledged
with pride by all who knew him. Geor
gia mourns!the loss of her true and gifted
son! By the people of Hancock, he was
not only admired because of his ability,
his oratory, and his noble patriotism;
but was relied on as a wise counsellor in
all their public and private interests,
and in his judgment they placed un
swerving confidence. In him there was
no deceit. He was candid, unselfish,
magnanimous, chritable, just, wise and
brave.
. We, as a people, loved and honored
him in life, and with sorrowing hearts
we have met to mourn his untimely death,
with the stricken ones of his home, dear
now to us because always so dear to
him.
1. Resolved, That as citizens of Geor
gia, in the death' of Judge Stephens we
have lost a wise statesman, a fearless de
fender of Constitutional freedom, whose
highest ambiton was his country’s good.
2. Resolved, That as neighbors and
friends of the deceased, we are not un
mindful of his devotion while he lived,
to the people of this county, whom he
served with unshrinking fidelity.
3. Resolved, That we tender to the
wife and children and the venerable and
stricken brother of the deceased, oar sin
cere sympathy in their severe bereave
ment, and direct that a copy of these res-
lutionsbe sent to'Them.
After reading the resolutions, the
Chairman of the Committee addressed
the meeting in an impressive speech, in
which he commented upon Judge Ste
phens’ ability as a lawyer and Jndge;
the attachment which had always been
cherished for him by the people of this
county; their confidence in his judgment;
their readiness to consult him as to mat
ters of both public and private interest;
his devotion to the interests of his coun
try; his charity; his magnanimity; his
sacrificing spirit, where both personal and
public interests were at stake.
On motion of Judge F. L. Little, the
resolutions were unanimously adopted
by a rising vote; and on motion of Col.
H. A. Clinch, copies of these proceedings
were directed to be sent to the wife and
children atd to the brother oi the de
ceased; and to the village papers, the
Atlanta Sun and Constitution, Savannah
Hews, Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel and
Macon Idegraph, with request that they
be pnblished.
On motion, Col. C. W. DuBose was
requested to write out his remarks and
furnish them for publication.
Col. D. W. Lewis moved that Gen.
Robt. Toombs be requested to deliver, in
Sparta, daring the sitting of the Supe
rior Court in October next, an oration on
the life and character of Judge Steph
ens, which motion was unanimously
adopted. After which the meeting ad
journed.
"William Fraley,
James A Harley, Chairman.
Secretary.
Sparta, Ga., July 20th, 1872.
to know the strength of his adversary’s
cause,andthen to break down this strong
hold with the irresistible logie of trnth.
His mind was clear as the sun at noon
day, and his arguments were driven with
a power and precision that charmed his
hearers,|and claimed their unqualified as
sent. For many years past he has
proudly stood among the first men of his
day as a jurist and advocate. This court
room has been the scene of many intel
lectual triumphs to the deceased. How
often have we witnessed his masterly ef
forts in behalf of onr citizens charged
with crime, and how many now breathe
the pure air of heaven by reason of his
exertions in their behalf. Innocence
found in him a dauntless and devoted
defender, and, oftener than otherwise,
without money and without price. While
he seldom appeared in the prosecution
of offenders, yet when convinced that
pnblic justice demanded their con
viction, he did not hesitate to lend
all his powers to sustain the ma
jesty of the law. Whevever he ap
peared all men were compelled to ac
knowledge that his aim in every effort
was to arrive at trnth. His life, public
and private, was a continued search for
vindication of what he felt to be the
truth. Under whatever circumstances
placed, when convinced of wrong he un
hesitatingly abandoned the object of his
pursuit. I have known him over twenty
years, and almost in sight of the sacred
spot where he lies bnried, I give this tes
timony as one of the crowning virtues of
his life, which D|By well be imitated by
all who would secure an endnring fame.
“The lip of truth shall be established for
ever.” His political views were known
of all men; the blandisments and threat-
enings of those in power were alike un
heeded by him we mourn to-day.
Where duty pointed he did not hesitate
to tread. How fresh in onr memories is
the scene when, stung by the wrongs of
the Government, he stood forth as the
defender of your rights under the law,
in defiance of the bayonets and prison-
walls of the tyrants at Washington. His
arrest and trial afforded him an oppor
tunity to arraign before the bar of con
science, the usurpers of the peoples’
rights, and the power of trnth uttered by
him on that occasion, awed his accusers
intosilence. That speech is to-day a
vindication of the Sonth, and a monu
ment to his memory, more endnring
than brass or marble. Well may Geor
gia mourn the loss of her favored son 1
Much as we valued his ability and his
unbending integrity as a lawyer, a Judge
and a politician, we were bound to him
by the closer ‘ties of neighbor and
friend. He had a warm plaoe in his
great heart for the people among whom
he liVed. I see in all yonr faces ready
response to what I say.
Whe-ttefct to hjm in years go/ie by,
when trouble brooded over every house
hold, that failed to find a willing ear and
a feeling heart ? He helped us to bear
our trials by a genuine sympathy and by
active aid, when in his power to render
it. His friendship was without alloy—
tender as it was enduring. Judge Ste
phens was every inch a man. Can we,
my friends, estimate onr lossin the death
of such a man ? Time may lend its aid
to heal the wound which death has in
flicted in our hearts, but the lapse of
years will not efface the memory of Mb
virtues.
To the country at large, and to the
citizens of this county, the death of our
friend is a sad bereavement. But alas!
how much more heavy has this blow been
to the hearts of the sorrowing ones who
survive Mm in the home he loved so
well. But here we tread on sacred
ground—their grief is hallowed—we can
only trust that God, who sent the sore
affliction, will, in mercy, sustain them.
“ Give unto them beauty for ashes; the
oil of joy for mourning; the garments of
praise for the Spirit of heaviness.”
The body of our lamented friend lies
in yonder grave. Homan frailty was
alike his heritage and ours. His spirit
has gone to God who gave it. He can
not err. He knows we are but dust.
His mercy endureth forever,” and in
Him is plenteous redemption. In con
templating the life and character of the
departed one, I have found consolation
in my sorrow when I remmember the
words of Israel's Royal Bard:
“ Lord, who shall abide in thy taber
nacle ? who shall dwell in thy holy MU ?
He that walketh uprightly and worketh
righteousness and speaketh the trnth in
his heart.
He that backbiteth not with Ms tongne
nor doeth evil to his neighbor.
“In whose eyes a vile person is con
temned, bnt he honoreth them that fear
the Lord. He that sweareth to Ms own
hurt and changeth not. He thatpntteth
not out Ms money to usury nor taketh a
reward against the innocent. He that
doeth these things shaU never be moved.
SPEECH OF HON. CHARLES W. DUBOSE.
Agreeably to the request contained in
the above proceedings, Mr. DuBose fam
ishes the following as his remarks on that
occasion. In a note accompanying, he
says, “I thinx I have at least given the
thoughts I then expressed:”
Mr. Chairman: In presenting the re
port of your committee, I know too weU
how unnecessary is any comment from
me to commend it to tMs meeting, but,
I trust I may be indulged in the mourn
ful pleasure of recounting some of the
traits of mind .and character wMch
conspired to make our deceased friend,
Judge Linton Stephei s, dear to the peo
ple of Georgia, and dearer still to the
people of Hancock county. Nature gave
to Mm a wealth of mind uncommon
short-sighted, cannot stop the approach : amoDg men. His judgment was sound,
of an insidious evil, which is sure to J and his opinions seldom at fault, because
bring with it eternal ruin. they were the result of mature reflection.
Believing that, with Mr. Grant or Mr.
Greeley, tlie tendency will be the same,
and believing that New Euglaud desires
to see tho South Mexicanized, and in
that way rendered a prey to its. greed
forever, I can see but one path that
leads to safety. I cannot forsake, for
policy, the principles of
■ Old Democracy.
our political gathering, to drop a tear of
trne and fervent sorrow upon the grave
—the fresh grave of one of the noblest
of our brothers—one of the truest of
men.
Mr. Chairman, this is not vain pane
gyric; but a literally true record of Lin
ton Stephens. Sir, we were undergadu-
ates of the UMversity at the same time
—he a class or so ahead of me. We
were fellow-members of the Phi-Kappa
Society. It seems to me, to-night, I can
recall his face, as thongh it was yester
day. We -were not intimates, but I
knew him well and can recall now the
impression he made upon my youthful
mind, by his sterling worth, his strong,
clear intellect; and, above all, Ms almost
obstinate sense of integrity—his devo
tion to Truth, for its own sacred self,
without other reward than the conscious
ness of doing right.
I do not remember once of Linton Ste
phens having taken part in debate sim
ply for mere discussion. As I look back,
he seems always to have been deeply in
earnest wherever he defended. I cannot
say I saw in him then the promise of the
great distinction to which he rose in after
life, so honorably and so well; but, sir, I
did see those distinguishing marks of
character wMch he has worn like an am
ulet around Ms neck for more than a
quarter of a century.
As I repeat to you the characteristics
of his youth, do you not see them clearly
shining out in the bright and bold record
of the man ? You who knew him in af
ter life—as I was not privileged to do—
do you not see in Mm the earnest, labo
rions, conscientious, able advocate—the
learned, scrupulous, and spotless judge—
the high-toned, ardent, active, brave,
self-sacrificing representative ot the pub
lic weal—the unflinching citizen and sol
dier?
Ah! fellow-citizens, have we not cause,
indeed, to mourn the loss of snoh a man
as this—one of whom all tMs can be said
without rhetoric, and of whom less than
this would be unjust, and short of hon
est truth ?
I have often, since my removal to
Georgia, contemplated with pleasure the
renewal of my school-boy acquaintance
with many of her choicest sons. I can
say here, with perfect truthfulness, that
Linton Stephens was one amongst them
all I desired most to know again.
I shall never see Mm more. I shall
never be privileged to hear his manly
advocacy of what lid esteemed thejright.
But this much, I feel that hisjuntimely
death has taught me a lesson, and one
which we should all do well to remember:
that discrepancies of opinion should not
make us forget or forego, in our zeal,
what we owe to our good and valued
brothers who may suddenly leave us to
deplore '.hem, with an angry word on
our lips, a hasty criticism rankling at oar
hearts. Purity of purpose, patriotism,
prudence, and a high self-respect, alixe
demands that we should differ without
acrimony, and dofend without denuncia
tion—remembering that we are all falli
ble, and there is but one thing sure: we
must all die.
Permit me, Mr. Chairman, and fellow
citizens, to introduce to your considera
tion,the preamble and resolutions I hold
in my hand, and move their adoption.
HrgS..
■ m IGREELEY,
He Accepts the Baltimore Nomination.
HIS LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
New York, July 23.
The following is the official notification
of Greeley’s nomination at Baltimore:
To Hon. Horace Greeley :
Dear Sir—It is our pleasure, in com
pliance with the instruction of the Demo
cratic National Convention, assembled in
this oity, to inform yon that you have
been unanimously nominated as its can
didate for President of the United
States. The Convention, consisting of
733 delegates, representing every State
and Territory in the Union, adopted,
without amendments, the declaration of
principles affirmed by the Convention of
Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati, and
strengthened by the indorsement con
tained in your letter of acceptance.
The action of tMs great body of dele
gates provcs;that they are, with singular
unanimity, determined to enter nnder
your leadership upon the patriotic duty
of restoring to the administration of the
government ’purity and integrity, and
that independence to its departments
which regards the Constitution alike the
source and the limit of. Federal power.
laying aside the differences of the past,
abandoning all purpose of mere parti-
zan advantage, asking for ho pledge oth
er than that of fidelity to the principles
to wMch they have given their deliber
ate and resolute adherence, and wMoh
they believe will command the approval
of a large majority of their own people,
they tender you their nomination, confi
dent that peace and good government
will be inaugurated and maintained un
der your administration. Respectfully,
your obedient servant,
J. R. Doolittle, Chairman.
Baltimore, July 10,1872.
preamble and resolutions on
DEATH OF LINTON STEPHENS.
DEATH OF HON. LINTON STEPHENS.
PnceediBgi of the Democracy of Glyaa
at a Meeting on Thursday Evening,
the 18th Inst, Held at Brunswick, Ga.
GREELEY’S ACCEPTANCE.
Gifted with a high order of intellect, bis
superior, mental training placed him, in
the beginning of his professional career,
where effort could not fail of the
highest success. In the Courts of
his native State be dared to wrestle
with the giants of the legal fraternity,
and Boon was he recognized as a
CoL John W. R. Pope, having beer
loudly called for, arose and said:
Mr. Chairman and Fellow-citizens: Com
paratively a stranger amongst yon
I thank you for the flattering invitation
you have been pleased to extend to me,
amongst others, to address you on the
grave issues of the day. “ I beg; fellow-
citizens, you will excase me from mak
ing a political speech at this late hour of
the evening. I have, besides the late
ness of the hour, a solemn reason for re
fraining from all politios on this occa
sion.
I wish just here, as we are about to go
home to our families, that we should all
remember, that there is one bleeding,
widowed heart in Georgia to-night,
whom the returning footsteps of whose
hoDoredlord shall gladden, nevermore.
My friends, yon have denbtless read of
the recent demise of our distinguished,
virtuous, honored, conscientious, cour
ageous fellow-citizen, Linton Stephens
ti
formidable opponent Twas his habit, We may well pause here, in the midst of
Whereas, It has pleased an inscrutable Providence
to remove from a virtuous, honorable and distin-
gnished life, our lamented and honored fellow-citi
zen, the Hon. Linton Stephens; and
Whereas, It behooves us as Georgians and South-
erners to bear record of that noble actively useful
life and the stainless name of onr deceased brother
who died true to all his duties as a Christian, a citizen,
a judge and a representative of the people;
Beit Resolved 1st, That we, in common with every
true son of Georgia, deeply deplore the untimely
death of the deceased, the Hon. Linton Stephens.
Resolved 2d, That in'the death of the Hon. Lintox
Stephens, the Church, the State, the Bar and Socie
ty alike have suffered an irreparable loss.
Resolved 3d, Tfiat we hnmbly tender to tho be
reaved family of the deceased, and to his distin.
gnished brother, onr belovcM fellow-citizen, Hon-
Alexander H. Stephens, our unfeigned sympathy
and sorrow for an event which has afflicted Georgia
from her seaboard to her hills.
Resolved, 4th, That these proceedings be publish
ed in the public press of our city, and in the press
of Augusta, Atlanta and Savannah.
The remarks of Col. Pope were listened to with
profound consideration and attention, and the pre
amble and resolutions received with deep and man
ifest feeling.
Col. John L. Harris then arose, and in the follow
ing touching, eloquent response, seconded the mo
tion for adoption:
In rising to second the motion to
adopt these resolutions, I must express
my gratitude to my friend fbr offering
them. They are alike honorable to the
dead and creditable to the living.
I knew Judge Stephens well.
In the eloquent language of the cMv-
alrous Gardner, lie was a “ treasure of
the State.” He was trained up at the
feet of Gamaliel. We fondly hoped that
the mantle of the elder Stephens would
have fallen upon the shoulders of the no
less distinguished dead.
It is the will of God. We now to the
decree. Admiration for his great abili
ties is forgotten in the reverence and
loTe with which we look npon his grave.
In Mm the chivalry of the soldier was
mingled with the gentleness of a woman.
But a short time ago his eloquent
tongue was heard, in this hall, in the de
fence of the great railroad interest of this
region. Outbursts of applause in the
court-room was the tribute to Ms zeal
and power. The’ echo has scarce fad^i
on the ear, and now the great lawyer
and statesman is silent forever.
Upon no people has this great Iobs fall
en more heavily than npon us. He was
onr strength in the past, and* our hope
in the future. We had trusted that his
powerful legal mind would have unrav
eled the tangled web in which onr inter
ests are involved; that his spotless repu
tation would have been a shield to ward
off all but legitimate darts and insure a
loll, fair and canciid discussion of our
rights.
But he is done with earth.
No man was ever 'more loved than
Linton Stephens. His memory will be
cheerished by ns during life and lovingly
handed down to our children.
Most sadly but heartily do I second
the motion to adopt the resolutions.
_ Wherenpon tke preamble and resolu
tions were unanimously adopted.
Jho. B. Habersham,
James M. Couper, Chairman.
Secretary.
New York, July 18, 1872.
Gentlemen : Upon mature deliberation
it seems fit that I should give to your
letter of the 10th instant some farther
and fuller response than the hasty, un
premeditated words in wMch I acknowl
edged and accepted your nomination at
our meeting on the 12th. That your
convention saw fit to accord its highest
honor to one who had been prominently
and pointedly opposed to your party m
the earnest and an angry controversy of
the last forty years, and essentially note
worthy that many of you originally pre
ferred that the Liberal Republicans
should present another candidate for
President, and would more readily have
united both of ns in the support of Mr.
Adams, Mr. Trumbull, Mr. Davis, or Mr.
Brown, is well known. I owe my adopr
tion at Baltimore wholly to the fact that
I had already been nominated at Cincin
nati, and that a concentration of forces
on any new ticket had been proven im
practicable.
Gratified as I am at your concurrence
in the Cincinnati nominations; certain
as I am that you would not have thus
concurred had you not deemed me up
right and capable, I find nothing in the
circumstance calculate^-to inflame van
ity or nourish self-conceit, but that your
Convention saw fit,*in adopting the Cin
cinnati ticket, to re-affirm the Cincinnati
platform, is to me a source of the most
profound satisfaction. That body was
constrained to take this important step
by no party necessity, real or supposed.
It might have accepted the candidates of
the Liberal Republicans upon grounds
entirely its own, or it might have pre
sented them as the first WMg National
Convention did Harrison and Tyler,
without adopting any platform whatever.
That it chose, to plant itself deliberate
ly. by a vote nearly unanimous, npon
the fullest and severest enunciation of
principles, which are at once incontesti-
bly Republican and emphatically Dem-
ocrrtic, gives trustworthy assurance that
a new and more auspicious era is dawn
ing npon our distracted country.
Some of tho best years and best efforts
of my life weare devoted to a struggle
against chattel slavery, a tsruggle none
the less earnest or arduous because a
respect for constitutional obligations con
strained me to act for the most part on
the defensive in resistance to thB diffu
sion raiher than in direct efforts for the
extinction of human bondage. Through
out the most of those years my vision
was uncheered, and my exertions were
rarely animated by even s8 much as a
hope that I should live to see my coun
try peopled by freemen alone. The af
firmance by yonr convention of the Cin
cinnati platform is a most conclusive
proof that not merely is slavery abolish
ed, bnt that its spirit is extinct; that,
despite the protests of a respectable but
isolated few, there remains among us no
party and no formidable interest which
regrets the overthrow or desires that re
establishment of human bondage, wheth
er in letter uor in spirit. Iam thereby
justified in my hope and trust that the
first oentuiy of American independence
will not close .before the grand elemental
truths on which its rightfulness was based
by Jefferson and the Continental Con
gress of 1776 will no longer be regarded
as glittering generalities, but will have
beoomethe universally accepted and hon
ored foundation of our political fabric.
I demand the prompt application of
those principles to our existing condi
tion. Having done what I could for the
complete emancipation of the blacks,
now insist on the fall enfranchisement
of all my whit* countrymen. Lot none say
that the bar has just been removed from
all but a few hundred elderly gentlemen,
to whom eligibility to office can be of little
consequence. My view contemplates
not a hundred prescribed, but a million,
who .are denied the right to be ruled and
represented by men of their unfettered
choice. Proscription were absurd if
these did not wi^i to elect the very men
who they are forbidden to choose. I
have profound regard for the peo
ple of that New England wherein I was
born, in whose common schools I was
taught. I rank no other people above
their intelligence, capacity and mo*!
worth; but while they do many things
well, some admirably, there ^is
one thing I’m sure they can’t,
wisely or safely, and that is,
selection for seats, remote from,
unlike their own, of the persons by whom
those States shall be represented in Con
gress. If they could do this to a good
purpose, theu Republican institutions
were unfit and aristociacy the only lone
political system. Yet, what have we re
cently witnessed ? Zebulon B. Vance,
the unquestioned choice of a large ma
jority of the present Legislature of North
Carolina, a majority backed by a majori
ty of the people who voted at its elec
tion, refused a seat in the Federal
to which he was fairly chosen,
and the Legislature then constrained to
choose another in his stead, or leave the
State unrepresented for years. The
voters of New England thus deprived
North Carolina of the Senator of her
choice, and compelled her to send anoth
er in Ms stead—another who in our late
contest was like Vance, a rebel, and a
fighting rebel, but who had not served
in Congress before the war as Vance had,
though the latter remained faithful to
the Union till after the close of Ms
term.
I protest against the disfranchisement
of a State, presumptively of a number of
States, on grounds so narrow and tech
nical as these. The fact that the same
beuate which refused Vance h".s scat pro
ceeded to remove his disabilities alter
that seat had bean filled by auother, only
serves to pl ica in the strongest, light the
indignity to N irth Carolina, and the ar-
bitmry capricious tyranny which dictated
it
I thank you, gentlemen, that my name
is to be conspicuously associated with
yours in a determined effort to render
amnesty complete and universal inspirit
os well as in letter. Even defeat in such
a case would leave no sting, while tri-
nmph would rank with those victories
wMch no blood reddens and which evoke
no tears bat those of gratitude and joy.
Gentlemen, your platform, which is
also mine, assures me that the Democ
racy is not henceforth to stand for one
tMng and Republicanism for another,
but that those terms are to mean in poli
tics, as they always have meant in the
dictionary substantially, one and the
same thing, viz: equal rights, regardless
of creed, or clime, or oolor.
I hail this as a genuine new departure
from outworn feuds and meemingless
contention, in the direction of progress
and reform. Whether I shall be found
worthy to bear the standard of the great
Liberal movement which the American
people have inaugurated, is o be deter
mined not by words, but by deeds.—
With me if I steadily advance, over me
if I falter, this grand array moves to
achieve for our country her glorious,
benficent destiny.
I remain, gentlemen,yours,
Horace Greeley.
To Hon James R. Doolittle, Chairman
of the Convention, and F W. Sykes,
John C. McCabe, and others of the
Committee.
From the Washington, Ga., Gaiette, 26tii July, 1872.
Old Wilkes Trim iu Principle.
There is no Gran mess and there is less
Greeleyness in this good old county of
Wilkes than in auv other county in this
blessed Union. The people here think
and act for themselves, and are not to be
led blindtold by conventio s and 4 ‘trusted
leaders.” There will be a small vote
polled in Wilkes for the next President
unless a Democrat is nominated upon a
Democratic platform by somebody. Some
few think it best to vote for Greeley as a
choice of evils rather than stand firmly
by the oldD. mocratic faith and not vote
at all unless they can vote for their own
candidate on their own platform. We
are confident that there is not a man in
the county who would vote for Greeley
from choice, Each and every one con
siders Mm an evil, a great evil, and an
enemy to Democracy, to state rights, to
republican government, to the South
and to everytMng that is good and
wholesome. All consider Mm an evil,
bnt think that he may possibly not be,
they hope he may not be, so great an evil
as Grant. All we knew or wish to know
on the subject,when we come to consider
onr individual course, is that he does not
represent, in his personal views nor in
his platform, Democratic principles.—
We do not stop to consider a
choice of evils, but are opposed to all
evils, and especially, in the pres
ent state, of affairs, to political evils.
We desire to see all Jsuch, whether
great or small, rooted out, and shall use
our utmost endeavors to assist in the
work, and when it iB useless to attempt
to uproot them, we will never be found
upholding and sustaining them. We
cannot and will not sanction wrong, and
will not assist in sustaining and perpetu
ating even the less of two or any number
of evils. We are for the right, pure and
simple and for nothing else. We advo
cate the cause of justice, of right, of
Constitutional governmeNt ar, left ua by
our fathers, of personal and civil liber
ty; and we can never support the man or
the party antagonistic to ail of these.
Others may think and act as they please,
as for us, there are higher objects in life
than a choice between evils, there are
Mgber aims for all men of nerve and
principle than any compromise with evil
and wrong, and we cannot follow the
lead of men who offer nothing better
than the entire change and subversion of
the government and-of the constitution
wMch we have sworn to uphold and sup
port; and the giving up .of all the righta
which we have been taught from child
hood to hold dear, on the simple, silly
plea of anything to beat Grant.
Gen. Ira R. Foster. — Our former
fellow-citizen, Gen. Foster, was in the
city several days last week. We were
truly glad to find Mm in as good health
as could be expected for one of his age.
He has been extensively engaged in the
lumber trade in Southern and South
western Georgia since 1868, and has
done well. We learn with pleasure that
he contemplates returning to Atlanta at
the end of the present year, where ho ex
pects to spend the remainder of his days.
His many friends will lie glad to welcome
him and his family among us-ftgain.
Boston, July 26.—Rev. Brown Emer
son, nearly 95 years of age, of Salem,
Massachusetts, dfed last evening.
graduated at Dartmouth in 1805.
He
Paris, July 26.—Stanley, the
pondent of the Heraut, has^r^jg
Jin.a It' J [ Jj ?
dines to-morrow
born.
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