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a THE ATLANTA SUN DAILY and WEEKLY TE RMS OF HUBSCBIPTION Dally—Single Copy j Twelve Months ..$10 00 I Three Months A 00 Six Months 6 00 | One Month l 00 Clubs for Dally—Per Annum » Three Copies 27 00 | Eight Copies 68 Four Five 36 00 I Ten “ 84 0. 43 oo I Single paper 6 "Weekly—Per Annum s Single Cony 2 001 Ten Copies 16 0 5^e cVnie y s..6 001 Twenty Copies 28 Ot tSXS8Z~::~. >» ™ s One Mni'drcd Copies 1-S5 00 Weekly for Six MontU* * I Twenty Copies 15 .0 I Fifty Copies :n 00 Single Copy J 001 Three Copies 2 60 I Five" Coj'ies * J* Ten Copies •••• 7 M I One Hundred Copies66 00 Single paper Sets 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. >