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“ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,’
rOB THE WEEK ENDIMOj£
WEDNESDAY,, AUGUST Slat. 187ii.
EDITORIALS BY MR. STEPHENS page 1.
EDITORIAL8-
Chsrles O'Conor for President, 0; What the Sop-
porters of Oreeley are Pledged to, 4 ; Replies to the
Constitution on Opposition to Greeley, and the Duty
of the Democratic Party’—two articles, 1 ; Not
Answered,—; Hard on his Allies, Another Defeat]
A United Democracy, Building up a Party, &o.,—
Columbus, 1; Marietta 4.
POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS—
Q, T. Fry to C. W. Hancock, Honest Democrats
Onght not to be Misrepresented, The Tongue of the
Slanderer, 6; The Democracy of North Georgia, 7;
A Constitutional Old Lino Whig, Letter from J. F.
Bedding. Important Letter from Crito, 8; Plain
question* to the Atlanta Constitution and Macon
Telegraph, 1; Gen. Bennlng, Gen. Toomhs, and Mr.
Stephens, 4.
POLITICAL SELECTIONS—
Democratic Tlekot—O'Conor for President, 8; The
Louisville Convention, 1; Kontacky Politics, 3.
POBOCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE, 3 548.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS, page 2.
MISCEL LANEOUS—
ggProm Cherokee county, About tho Crops, Ingen
ious Youth,Sad case of Drowning, Landon C. Haynar
The Griffin 4 Madison Railroad, Mr. Stephens’
School History, 0.
Telegrams,Markets, 4c., 8; Advertisements748.
SUN STROKES.
Ex-President Johnson made a speech
in Knoxville on the 10th, in which he
urged the election of Greeley as an earn
est that the American people mean to
“return to their ancient reverence for
the Constitution and official obligations.
The Democrats and Liborals have “ un
rolled the Constitution,” at last, and to
some purpose.—Courier-Journal,
,.f H * Atlxkti. Sun.—Wehave tried to reason with I fj re f rom the contest and vote for Cl on
tin* journal. We have labored earnestly and kindly _ 1 OUJ 1,116 conle8t ft na vote lor Uen,
to induce it to moderate its tone and to be at least a
«tlant opponent of the Democratic party. But it
dally grows bolder and fiercer in ita oppoaition, un
til now it is laboring vigorously to defeat the Demo
cratic party of this State. It is acting contrary to
and in defiance of, the Democracy of the United
States apeaking through their National Convention
—it is acting contrary to, and in defiance of, the
Democracy of Georgia speaking through their State
Convention; it goes even larther and denounces the
Democracy of Georgia as the Greeley party and is la
boring to build upaparty iuGeorgia. which If it attains
respectable proportions, will inevitably give the State
to Grant. We say, and every true Democrat knows
it, that The btis'B present political course la far
more serviceable to the Radical party and conducive
to the election of Grant than if it hoisted the Radical
flag, for then its influence would be totally lost. We
have reasoned in vain. We muct speak more plainly.
Our duty to tho Democracy, to the people who are
groaning under Radical despotism, demands that we
protest. m the name of the Democratic party, against
the course of • he Atlanta Scs, and declare that,
while it directly opposes all constituteu authorities
of the Democratic party, it ought not to claim to be
a Democratic paper.—Atlanta Constitution, lGthAvg.,
1872.
Grant, if it were necessary to defeat the
election of a Democrat ?
We are not laboring to defeat the De
mocracy of Georgia. We are laboring
to save their principles—those princi
ples on which they came into power—
and on which alone they deserve or can
hope for success. We say to our neigh
bor that we do not regard the Greeley
faction as the Democratic Party of
Georgia. Far from it.
A. H. S.
Our attention has been called to the
above editorial of our neighbor, the
Constitution, of the 16th instant.
We have not been in a condition lately,
physically or mentally, to say anything
through the columns of The Sun upon
public affairs; and should not do so now,
but for this direct arraignment of the
journal under oar control, for the course
it is pursuing between the two Radical
candidates for the Presidency. We in
tend at present simply to say to onr
neighbor, that we not only claim to be,
bat are a Democrat of that mould which
can never be made by any power on
earth, above it, or below it, to give our
sanction to principles that will, sooner
or later, inevitibly lead to the overthrow
of the whole fabric of American Free
Institutions.
The Atlanta Sun is a Democratic pa
per upon the principlts of Jefferson and
the Fathers of onr Federal Union. To
che advocacy and maintenance of those
principles it has been devoted since we
have been connected with it, and to the
„ _ ... ~ , , advocacy and maintenance of the same it
To what purpose? Is it for Gredoy I . . mccmpromUing ^ «a„" so long
to spitupon an Renounce as a aun^ing w6 ], a . e strength to write or meana to
lie?.. When didj Greeley ever show any
reverence for the Constitution? Was it
when he urged President Johnson’s im
peachment for maintaing its sacred obli
gations? or is it now, when he asserts
that tho reserved right of Local-Self-
Government secured to the States under
it is dependent upon the will and pleasure
of the Ruling Dynasty at Washington?
Reverdy Johnson, like other well-
informed men, thinks tua indications
point to a Greeley and Brown victory in
November. A large majority of the peo
ple agree with him in the opinion that
rour free institutions would, not bear the
(train which another four years of Radi-
misrule would subject them to.’’
^Courier-Journal
If they have stood the strain of subju
gation of ten States by Military Rule
since the war for .the maintenance of
tho Union was over, and this, too, under
the demands of Greeley, who was “ the
power behind the throne greater than
tho throno itself,” they may, perhaps,
bear the strain of another fonr years
better without his polioy than with it.
Pointed Letter from Isaac Bash.
Granting, however, for argument that
Grant was as good as Greeley, the latter
was entitled to the preference, represent
ing as he does all the better elements of
the old Radical Party.—Hon. Jas. D.
Mathts at Augusta 6a.
Are Sumner, Tappan.Tilden ifc 'Co., the
better elements of the old Radical Party?
If so, who constitute the] worse? — we
know of none worse except it be Mr.
Greeley himself.
Ho then contrasted the characters of
Groeley and Grant The latter had, up
I to the time he became the successful
I General, been a Democrat Yielding to
the temptations of power, he had be
come recreant to Ins professed princi
ples. Greeley bad always opposed the
I Democratic Party, but when the war
I .was ended, he said let strife cease.—Hon.
| Jas. S. Hook, at Augusta, Ga.
Not so fast Jndge Hook 1 When the
war was ended—the war for the main-
| tonance of the Union, under the Const!
I tution—it was Gen. Grant who was then
l for putting an end to die strife. He was
I for an immediate restoration of all the
States to their proper position in tie
f Union. It was Mr. Greeley and the ex-
I treme Radicals, of whom he was fore
most, who begnn a new war upon the
Constitution, which they waged to the
subversion of the Governments of ttn
States, and put carpet-baggers over them
by Military Despotism.
publish.
It was certainly a vain thing in onr
neighbor to attempt to “reason” us out of
this line of conduct, or in any way to dis
suade us from the discharge of what we
deem onr duty, not only to the Demo
oraoy of the country, bnt to the country
itself.
Equally vain will be all attempts of
any other sort.
With what face does our neighbor ven
ture to address the Democracy of Geor
gia, or of the United States, in censure
of us, with its"comploints of the people
groaning under Radical Despotism,
when it carries at the head of its col
umns as its candidate, the name of
Horace Greeley, the master spirit in
cringing about that despotism under
which they groan ?
Our neighbor has repeatedly said of
late, that Mr. Greeley’s past shonld be
forgotteo, that he now “bears the stan
dard of Constitutional Union.”
On this point we are at direct issne
with him. We oppose Greeley for his
present as well as past position and prin
ciples. We assert that he now sanctions
all the usurpations by which ten StaffeB
were pnt under the heel of despotism;
and to-day upholds and sanotions all the
principles of the infamous Enforcement
Acts and the Kn-Klnx Bill.
Does our neighbor deny this ? Is he
who holds and maintains these principles
the hearer of “the standard of Gonsti-
tional Union ?” Let him if he can, point
out a single usurpation or act of Despo
tism by the Grant- wing of the Radical
Party, under which the people now groan,
which was not approved and is not now
sanctioned by Mr. Greeley !
We say further at this time, that we
recognize no constituted authority or
anthorities of any body on earth, clothed
with rightful power to demand of ns, or
auy freeman, to give onr sanction to an
admitted outrage upon the rights of the
States ana of the people; nor do we
recognize any constituted authority in
any body of men, in convention, calling
themselves Democrats, or Liberal Re
publicans, or by any other name, which
gives them either the power or the
right to claim, mnch less demand, the
votes of freemen for any man who does
thus openly and notoriously sanction
such outrages upon their liberties.
So far as relates to the Democratic or
ganization in the State, we were, and are,
for harmony. We were pleased with the
Platform of Principles announced by the
Some Plain Questions for the Atlanta
Constitution and Macon Telegraj h.
THEY WILL PLEASE REPLY.
Editors Daily Sun: I find the following
article in the Macon Telegraph of yes
terday:
Uolt Rcmobs.—The Atlanta Constitution comment!
upon the political miscegenation rumors so preva
lent at Atlanta, and -which “Ogeechee” lately made
public in a letter from that city to the Savtnnah
News, as follows:
•• We have heard many painfnl things. Wo hear
that some of the Grant leaders have been in close
consultation with certain anti-Greeley Democrats.
We lia-re also heard that a gentleman prominent in
the 'straight* movement was in Washington a
short while ago, and was met at the depot by a
Government official, to whom he said he had come
as soon as he could after getting his dispatch.—
The official asked him what he conld do for Grant
iu Georgia. He replied a good deal, but he must
■* have money to work with. This conversation was
' overheard by a Georgian. The parties moved
• sway and no more was heard.
“We do know this, that some of the very ‘straight’
•Democrats drift into very earnest defense of Grant
‘when talking against Greeley’s support by the
■Democracy."
We have heard this same story, and on dit that the
official advanced this “pure Democrat" $1,500 on
account. Of course he can and ought to make some
show for that much money. How many men call
ing themselves white, can the addition, division and
silence gang buy in Georgia; and how much will
they average? These are questions we shonld like
to have answers to; and “pleaso the pigs” we will
have them one of these days. Grant is welcome to
some of these “patriots," however, and ihe sooner
they put on his livery the better for all concerned.
And now I desire to ask, “How many
men calling themselves white,” can the
Tammany Ring Gang, with their bags of
gold, buy in Georgia, to delude the hon
est masses into the support of Horace
Greeley, the chief head-center of Radi
cal usurpations, by which onr State and
nine others were pnt nnder the heel of
Despotism ?
“Who is the pure Democrat,” to whom
the on dit above stated attributes the re
ceipt of the $1,500? Let him be
named, and placed alongside with those
who have Tammany money in their
pockets for putting on the Greeley
levery.
“A fellow feeling often makes us won
drous kind.” It may be that many
calling themselves Democrats, who have
put on the Radical livery of Greeley,
would feel less ash&nea if some of their
old compatriots would pnt on the livery
of the same principles under the banner
of Grant. This may betheearnest.hopeof
some of that class who have a conscious
ness of their own degeneracy, but they
will find in the end that there are thou
sands upon thousands of “pore Demo
crats,” not only in Georgia, but in all
the States, who will never bow the knee
to the Baal of Radicalism and usurpa
tions, with the livery. of either Greeley
or Grant.
A Democrat who is a Democrat.
“The Democratic Party has Pointed out
the Duty.”
Our neighbor, tho Constitution,
Isays: “With a United Democracy, Gree-1 late Convention—and were exceedingly
[ley’s election is sure and Grant’s defeat j gratified that no one in that body, as far
[certain.” I as we were informed, even proposed to
Would it not be much better to say— j the principles announced at Balti-
[much more cheering to Democrats, and
[equally true—that “withaUnitedDemo-1
Ici-cy, fL: -V --•* fcc'h Greele}
I Grant is certain?”
The Constit.tion forther says: “All op-
sition to Greeley is aid to Grant and
authern oppression.”
Have we ever experienced any oppres-
|aon from Grant which was not urged at
|:.Vj time by Greeley, and now sanction d
] by him ? Does our neighbor think that
[Georgia Democrats are no better than
y geeese to be fooled into a surrender of
[their birthright by such dosh as this ?
more.
If onr neighbor does not feel bound to
ru^cribo to the action of what he calls
the “constituted authorities” of the
Patty at Baltimore in the matter of prin
ciples announced, with what authority
does he assume to say that we, or other
Democrats in Georgia, are bound by wbat
was done either there or in Atlanta in the
matter ot candidates, when the man pre
sented to them him been the life-long
enemy to eveiy essential principle in the
Democratic creed, and who would now,
according to his solemn declaration, re- and have men lost iheir reason ?
So says the Constitution. That “duty
is now plain. Greeley is the representa
tive and leader,” &c.
This is the logic of the organ of the
Greeley party in this city.
Suppose, while the editor of the Con
stitution was an officer in the Confederate
army, gallantly fighting for independ
ence, the Confederate Congress had de
clared that it was expedient for the
Confederate forces, to set aside the im
mortal Lee, and take Grant, then in com
mand of the Federal forces, as the chosen
leader of the Southern soldiers,
and join his army to defeat the princi
ples and measures which the United
States Government was then endeavor
ing-to enforce, and for which Grant and
his army were employed by that Gov
ernment; would he have considered him
self “bound” by such action of the
Congress; and would he have thought it
his plain “ duty ” to adopt that course?
Neighbor, it is not worth mnch to use
sophistry or flimsy arguments. The best
way is to make no wry faces—make -no
such wretched pleas, as that the Demo
cratic party are bound or under any sort
of obligations by the undemocratic and
unauthorized action of the Baltimore
Convention. The best way is to swallow
Greeley whole—urge his sppport for its
own sake, upon the xightfnlness of his
Radicalism—his Radical record, and the
Radical platform on which he Btands,
This is the best way.
We find the following letter from Isaac
Bush, Esq., of Miller county, in the
Miller county Star of the 14th instant.—
Mr. Bosh is a prominent man of thq
highest standing and influence, and well
known all over Georgia:
WHAT SHALL WE DO ?
Editors Star: I have been inquired of
by my friends living in different parts of
the county, in regard to my position as
to the contest now going on for the office
of President of the United States.
So far as my knowledge extends, the
contest is narrowed down between Mr.
Greeley and Mr. Grant, both Radicals;
and as I anp a Democrat of the Jefferson
ian principle, I cannot and will not
snpport either.
*****
The principles incorporated in the
Cincinnati and Philadelphia- platforms,
if not the same, are certainly synonymous.
I was fearful some months previous to
the assembling of the Baltimore Conven
tion that Mr. Greeley would be nomi
nated, and my fears arose from the fact
that even in the State of Georgia I could
see snch men as Ben Hill received in con
vention to the exclusion of good and true
Democrats when it is generally known
(hat Ben Hill has been affiliating with
the Radical party * * * * in Geor
gia; and seeing such in Georgia, I was
constrained to believe that the same dirty
work was going on in other States whioh
would give the Greeleyites considerable
weight in the deliberations of that body.
The Baltimore Convention met on the
9th of July, and the result showed that
my fears were well giounded, for it
seems that Convention did, on that day,
bargain, sell and transfer the great Na
tional Democratic party into the hands
of the Greeleyites, or sore-head Repub
licans, a ad no donbt will claim that
the Democratic party throughout the
States is hound by their action now.
Sira, had the trusted leaders of the
Democratic party any power to transfer
the party principles over to its enemies?
think not; and I have yet to learn that
the trusted leaders of any party are
clothed with any such power.
In my opinion, the action of the Bal
timore Convention is without a parrallel
in the history of party politics. Now
will the great national Democratic party
feel bound by the result at Baltimore?—
think not, although I believe there are
good portion of the party who call
themselves Democrats, but with Radical
principles, who will go for Mr. Greeley
with all their povtar, and may lead off
some good men on their great third
hobby policy; but in my opinion there
is a respectable portion of the true and
genuine 1 emocrals who, like myself, will
not agree to- the transfer, because they
khow it was not the action of the trne
and genuine Democracy; but will stand
by the time-honored principles of those
noble sires who at great sacrifice achieved
for us liberty and free government.
Nby no, tke-e are yet enough left who
remember the blood and statesmanship of
their ancestors, and will snatch the Dem
ocratic banner from their hands, and
hoist it high in tne breeze, as the eagle
of this great nation bearing upon her
wings, wisdom, moderation and justice !
If it cannot succeed at present, let it
stand as a monument to the memory of
onr good and noble sires, who were the
fathers of liberty and free-government;
and though slow, but sure, it will lead
to victory in the future.
mnch, it is trne, bnt all you can. We
had just as lief be fonnd aiding Grant.
We would not give the toss of a copper
for the difference between the platforms
upon which the two stand. The only
essential difference is, that Cincinnati
declares in favor of the one term princi
ple. In all other respects, so far as a
Jeffersonian Democrat can have any
choice, they are essentially alike.
“We can’t Survive Another Defeat, an
Another four Years of Grant’s Admin.
I* tra tion.”
This is the plea of some who wish us
to commit Bnicideby supporting Greeley.
Did such persons ever reflect that, we
can’t survive such success as they pro
pose, and that we can mnch better sur
vive defeat ? Also, did it ever occur to
them that if Ko;—‘ survive defeat we
are unworthy of success ? And further,
that if we can’t survive defeat on a right
line, how much leas are we able to sur
vive defeat on a wrong line ? If defeat
on correct principles is annihilation
Colquitt, Miller county, Ga.
Isaac Bush.
The Tax upon the Press.
This subject is again before the Legis
lature.
to
In relation to this matter we have
say what we did before. Though it is
true that no newspaper in Georgia has
ever been taxed, yet, if the Legislature
think proper to tax them, we shall not
object, provided webepntnponan equal
footing with other occupations. The press
is a great disseminator of knowledge—an
educator — and the most effect
ive agency in this line on
earth, and newspapers do more
for the public gratuitously; and receive
less pay for that for which compensation
iB given than any other industry in
the world; we see no reason why a news
paper shonld not be taxed on its net in
come, the same asA teacher or a preach
er. The types, piesses, &c., of a news
paper shonld ha’te-the same exemption
as tne tools of a man’s trade; and then
if a tax is imposed, it ought to be just as
it is on a farmer, a teacher, a lawyer or a
minister—not otherwise.
But we protest against being asked to
pay the accumulated taxes of years past,
Tne newspapers have not run their busi
ness with a view to the payment of snch
a tax. They are unprepared for it, and
unable to do it, and its exaction wonld be
unjust.
If the Legislature think proper to tax
newspapers, and will do so justly and
eqnit ably—their action to take effect next
year, and from that time forth, we shall
nos complain.
>-» *
“All Opposition, to Greeley is Aid
Grant a kid Southern Oppression* 99
So says the Constitution. If this be
true, the reverse iB likewise true : that
opposition to Grant ia aid to Greclcys
Sonthern oppression; for Greeley and
the .■’ocfcrir.es set forth in hia plat
form have done morq to bring about
Southern oppression than all other agen
cies combined. He stands to-day avow
edly upon his same mischievous record
yet the Constitution taunts those who de-
j dare that they cannot and will not sup-
’ The Constitution says The Sun “is
laboring to build up a party in Georgia,
which, if it attains respectable propor
tions, will inevitably give the State to
Grant.”
And we retort that the Constitution is
laboring to bnild up a party in Georgia
which, if successful, will inevitably give
the State to Greeloy—a calamity to be
dreaded and deplored indeed, not a whit
leks in any respect whatever than the
giving of the State to Grant. Why chide
us with contributing indirectly to aid
Grant, when you are openly aiding
Greeley ? Greeley' is equally as objec
tionable every way as Grant.
Bat again:
We Bay, and every true Democrat Knows it, that
The Sun’s present political course is far more ser
viceable to the Radical party and conducive to tho
olection of Graut than if it hoisted the Radical flag,
for then its influence would be totally lost. t
How oan onr course be any more ser
viceable to the Radical party (which we
honestly and earnestly oppose) than the
courso of the Constitution which espouses
the cause of an avowed Radical npon a
platform of Radical principles ? The
Constitution has already “hoisted the
Radical flag,” and is greatly distressed
beaause we “uncompromisingly” adhere
to Jeffersonian principles and refuse to
join him.
Neighbor, wHen you haul down that
Radical flag, and cease to advocate
Radical candidate on Radical principles,
then, if at any time yon find ns advocat
ing Radicalism, you can chide ns for it
but until then be modest.
But this silly cry, that those who do
not .support Greeley are aiding Grant,
comes with an ill grace from those who
brought forward Greeley, knowing that
steadfast Jeffersonian Democrats would
not and could not support him. This
they knew when they did it,' and we
have more reason to charge them with a
design to defeat and kill the party and to
secure Grant’s election, than they have
to allege that our course is aiding him.
We tell him again, that we would as
lief aid Grant as Greeley, and jnst as lie!
aid Greeley as Grant. We cannot and
will not aid either. If the refusal to aid
Greeley helps Grant, the refusal to aid
Grant would help Greeley. Our hand
is against both. If fighting Radicalism
hurts Greeley more than it hurts Grant,
it must be because Greeley is more in
the way of our blows against Radical
principles than Grant is. On this point
we will not say—neither do we care. It
is enough for ns that he is a Radical
now, and always has been; that he now
does, and always has, stood on Radical
principles. It illy becomes one who is
defending Greeley, to charge us with
aiding Grant.
, *-♦-<
Jeffersonian Demoeratic Meeting in
excerpts of fun and humor.
Beecher says: “When a virago is
imiug a pail of slops at you from the
cham!>er window run !—don’t stop to ex
postulate I—run !—and be nimble about
A man out west was offered a
plate of macaroni soup, but declined it,
declaring that they “ couldn’t play off
any biled pipe stems on him.”
An Irishman leaning against a
lamp-post as a funeral procession was
passing by, was asked who was dead.—
‘I can’t exactly say, sir, but I think it is
the jintleman in the coffin.
Jf&P* An artist, showing his pictures to
a customer, receives tho following retort:
“Well, I dont think much of this,” hold
ing the piotnre, before him. “Don’t
think much of it! Why, that’s a very
rare print—a very rare print, ndeea,
sir.” “Rare! I’ve no doubt it is rare.
It certainly is not well done.
S3?*Eve was the only woman who never
threatened to go and live with her mam
ma. And Adam was the on'y man who
□ever tantalized ui-» wile abont the way
mother used to cook.
“Oh matrimony! Ebon art like
To Jeremiau’a figs;
The good is very g nid; tho bad
Too sour to give the pig*.
I never dreamed of such a fate
When I a-lai- w*i- tx-urted—
Wife, in th-r. nurse, seam.-tr^ss, cook, house
keeper. cnamneruiaid, laundress, dairy-woman and
scrub .eaeral y, doing the work of nix,
For the sake of being supported."
what will be the consequences of defeat
in the advocacy of unsound principles ? ; port eitner him or Grant, or any mano
Has judgment fled to brutish beasts, those principles, with aiding Grant.
Neighbor, you are aiding Greeley—not
Marietta.
In response to a call issued a few days
since the Jeffersonian Democrats of Cobb
county, met in the public square at Ma
rietta, at 12 o’clock m. yesterday, Judge
Kirkpatrick presided and John Nix,acted
as Secretary.
Dr. S. S. Bailey stated the object of
the meeting.
Col. W. H. Weems, of Atlanta, was
then introduced, and for three-quarters
of an hour held the audience spell
bound by his eloquence.
Mr. H. K. Shackleford, of Alanta, be
ing loudly called for, responded in a half
hour’s speech. His mention of Charles
O’Conor’s name was received with loud
applause.
John EL. Fttrmon, Esq., of Baldwin,
was called-out, and responded in a stir
ring speech.
Col. Ramsey, of Harris, next address
ed the meeting in a brief bnt pointed
speech.
A committee of six, consisting of Col.
Atkinson, Dr. S. S. Baily, Dr. Tennett,
John York, CoL Hill, and Dr. Gober,
reported a list of delegates to the State
Convention, which was unanimously
adopted by acclamation as follows:
Delegates—N G Gignilleat, A S Att
kinson, John Hill, Dr S S Bailey, Col P
M Kickpatrick, L & Northcutt, Col John
O Gartrell, Dr N N Gober, Dr J G
R ib'KUiiiiti . v.
Meell.tg of tUu Jeffrrsontan Democracy.
Conyers, Ga., August 17, ’72.
Acc >nliug to announcement, a portion
of the Democratic party of Rocjcdalo
county, met to-day in the Court House.
Dr. A. O. W. Travis was Chairman, and
E. F. Edwards, Secretary.
Col. A. O. Perry stated the object of
the meeting.
A committee, consisting of Messrs. J.
M. White, W. D. Atkinson, and E. B.
Moody, presented the following resolu
tions, whioh were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, a portion of the Democratic
party, whom we have been accustomed
to trust in the past, and who stood shoul
der to shoulder with us during the cam
paign of 1868, have now in an flour
when Victory seemed ready to perch npoa
our banner, sold and bartered their
rights to Greeley and Radicalicalisin, be
it, therefore,
1. Resolved, That we, the unterrified
Democracy 'of Rockdale county, still
stand firmly upon the true principles of
Democracy, and from these we shall not
swerve.
2. Resolved, That we are opposed to
Greeley and Grant, and that we will not
support either of them. Tnat the great
principles of Constitutional Government
are about to be supplanted by Centralism
and despotism, and it behooves us, in
this the hour of our dire extremity, to
adhere with the greater tenacity to these
undying principles that undvrlio our
government. •
3. Resolved, That we most heartily
endorse the action of that portiou of the
Democratic Party' which luoss to the
calling of a meeting in Atlant-*, next
Tuesday, and trust that it may eventuate
iu the selectiou ot a candidate for our
standard bearer arounu whom every true
Democrat can rally.
4. Resolved, That we heartily endorse
the administration of His Excellency
Governor Smith.
5. Resolved, That the proceedings of
this meeting be published in the Atlanta
Sun and the Conyers Examiner.
The following delegates to the Atlanta
Convention were appointed: E. F. Ed
wards, T. H. Bryan, A. C. Perry and W.
D. Atkinson. A. C. W. Travis,
E. F. Edwards, Chairman.
Secretary.
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Tke Louisville Convention.
Hon. Wm. M. Ferry, of Michigan,
late Democratic candidate for Congress
man, is one of the prominent men of
that State who are moving to secure a
good representation at the Louisville
Democratic National Convention in Sep
tember. A foil delegation of influential
Straight-Outs will undoubtedly attend
from Miohigan.
In Camden, N. J., a large Straight-
Out Democratic meeting was held a few
evenings since, at which resolutions were
adopted endorsing the Louisville Con
vention, and calling a District Conven
tion to meet on the 22d inst., for the ap
pointment of delegates thereto from the
First District of New Jersey. An ex
tended speech, reviewing the political
situation, was made by Hon. Samuel J.
Bayard, in the course of which he said:
Headed by Belmont, the World & Co.,
a plan was formed to nominate Charles
Francis Adams at Cincinnati. Leading
Democrats, such as Hendricks, Pendle
ton, etc., co-operated in this scheme.
Mr. Adams’ letter, published some time
before the Cincinnati Convention, dam
aged his prospects. He held out uo hopes
to the corruptionists. He was rather too
respectable and independent for their
use. Not so with Mr. Greeley. For a
year or more he was secretly intriguing
for the nominations at Cincinnati ana
Baltimore. Mr. Greeley was a better
politician than Mr. Adams. He grasped
boldly at both Conventions. By means
shrewdly guessed at or partially disclosed,
and clearly indicated by results, he se
cured tne support of Messrs. Seymour,
Hendricks, Pendleton, the Tammany
Ring, and the Confederate leaders. * *
When the delegates met in the Opera
House at Baltimore, the North and West
with servile alacrity complied wit- ; the
demands of the Southern Confederate
lenders. The Convention marched over
and pnt itself on a Republican platform,
and proclaimed as their chosen leader,
an original Abolitionalist and Radical
Republican. Mr. Greeley and his prin
ciples were together approved. Of
coarse, they are inseparable aud identi
cal. The Convention did not repudiate
his principles. They took the man with
all his imperfections. The job had been
prescribed by the rings, and it was
thoroughly performed. But it was not
the work ^ the Democratic m?:?'?. The
Greer, John Allford, W P Gault, OG
Fife, John Johnson, John Ward, W H tiling was done without autnomy icom
Tucker, T H Russell, Thomas Kent,
Daniel Haney, Wm Manning, H Homs,
John Jackson, Capt T H Lyae, Joshua
Nix, W P McClatchey.
Mr. Daniel Haney was then called for,
and responded in a very humorous
speech of ten minutes, alter whioh the
meeting thanked the speakers and ad
journed.
The meeting was composed mainly of
the sturdy farmers of old Cobb county.
They are still true to the faith.
them, and in defiance of their w-'chor,
I have the most encouraging informa
tion of the formidable character which
the Louisville Convention will present.
Great and illustrious names are suggested
among the candidates for nomination on
the 3d of September. But whether sue-,
cessful or not, the Democratic party w
still survive. Around the or^aniz/*®
perfected at Louisville tlie# eet °"* h ®
millions of Democrats, nr» J has bcea
purchasable, may on'** 1
deemed, regent-' *
