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aFREsH PROM THE PEOPLE.


u will be remembered that in our Last,
there was an article, stating, under the ausbo-
ri'y Of the Nashville papers, that no delegate
had been sent from Tennessee 10 the Baltimore
Convention. The people. though devoted, en-
Enthusiastically devoted to Gen. jackson, were 20
averse 10 Van Buren,, haiti was impossible TO
get up meeting to "take the responsibility
Of appointing delegates 10 the grand humbug.
They looked upon the whole matter as farce,
and determined TO act no part in t. How as
founding, then, 10 the people Of that state must
have been the developcment, that her Is votes,
together with the influence Of her great name,
had been pledged, in convention, 10 Van Bu-
rem and Johnson. No wonder that they in
disnantly asked an explanation. Tho wretch
(for there was only one) who had had the ef-
frontery, without any authority. to cast the Is
votes Of sovereign state, has published hi.
shame to the world. He thus speak, for him
self In the Van Buren, paper which the Office
holding and otiice-secking gentry have lately
established al Nashville:
To Tia Eiifsr Of tie Uniss.
S,a: You will discover my name introduced
into the proceedings Of The Baltimore Couycn-
ton. To prevent all Misunderstanding, I
make the following statement l was not de-
iegated to act in that Convention. . happen
ed To be IN Baltimore at the time Of it, sitting.
and after the delegates from the difcre a
states had their credentials examined by the
T.. ,s,s~
appeared " be no one present representing
Tennessee. This circumstance seemed TO be
deeply regretted by many. and upon is being
mentioned that was there, and q Tennessee
an, IL was suggested by some that might vote,
which accordingly did. As TO the vote upon
the Presidential nomination, |. was well
known, that my vote would have no effect
upon the result; ~ 10 the nomination Cor the
Vice Presidency, tho result was not 80 clear;
and believing NJ ] did, that Tennessee pre-
ferred Col. johnson for that Office, gave n
vote for him as a citizen Of this state I am
perfectly satisfied that am the only person
who voted In the Convention who was not
clothed with ample delegated authority.
EDMUND RuCKER,
OF Rufksrfsrd eennty, Tenn.
Nashville, June ID, 1885.
Now, il this Rucker had been too honest o,
yield 10 the abominable request Of the Van
Buren managers at Baltimore, johnson could
not have been nominated. or the 265 votes
given, johnson received l7s, which was only
two or three more than two thirds--the num-
Der necessary for n choice. II, then, the If
teen Tennessee votes be deducted, il will be
perceived that JohpsOn would have had con-
sidera5ly less than two thirds, and Of course
he would not have been nominated.
To Mr.. Rucker, this result, IL seems. "vas
not so clear" Perhaps not; bet this only
shows that his stupidity equals his depravity.
Silas Wright jr. and the other New York in
trisasrs had more penpieaeiiy They were
up to syferin," as Maj. Downing says. They
perceived that some votes must be manufae-
tured, before Col. Johnson could be palmed
upon the people. Rueker was 4 plant tool,
and vita this tool they manufactured fifteen
votes, IN less time than blacksmith would
have required to make as many horseshoe
naiis, or printers devil, to put together as
many types. Thus was the job finished; thus
was Johnson's nomination brought about in
utter disregard Of all truth and honesty, in
contempt Of the people Of Tennes sc, and in
violation Of Gen. Jaeksons implied injunc-
ton that the delegates should be sfresh from
the people"