The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-21
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Southern Democracy party which, while
constituting the back bone OF the strength thai
is to save the Democratic party in the coming
battle of November, has, strangely enough, ma
organ in the city OF Washington. | beg per-
mission to call the attention OF the friends oil
PIERCE and KING throughout the country, to the
position and conduct Of these pretended Demo
Gratis, known a. Constitutional Union men, who
are exclusively represented by the metropolitan
organ of the Democra, y-the Washington
Union On the 18th inst, six weeks after the
nominations of the Baltimore convention had
been made, months after a regularly appointed
Democratic electoral ticket was in the field,
these men consent to 20 into convention with
ScoTr men, and WEBSTER men, and Fl -LMoRE
men, with all sorts of men except true State
Rights Democratic PIERCE aud KING men. And
for what? The. answer il contained in the fol
lowing article from the Macon (Ga) Telegraph,
forsshado owing and laying bare the extreme
selfshness of their purposes, and the utter reck-
lessness of their disregard for the interests and
success of the Democratic cause.
From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
The ELECTORAL TICKET AGAIN.-After all
the forward and back movements OF the last
three weeks. we are compelled to announce that
anything like q cordial reunion of the Georgia
Democracy is farther off than ever. The Union
ist wing of the party have not failed to submit
plans which are mprac.icable, and to demand
concessions which are impossible, but from the
whole tenor Of their oveitures, it is plain that
servie submission on the part Of the acknowl-
edged Democracy is the price set upon their CO
operation. They have not hestated to place in
jeopardy the interests Of the Democratic party
they have sworn deep oath to oppose the regu
lar Democratic ticket which heads our columns
they have gone over bodily into the old Union
organization after having pronounced it dis
banded, and instead of giving the nomination
of Pierce and King an active, immediate support,
they have sent delegates to new Union con-
vention, to whose action they are bound in honor
to submit. They have more than all, threatened
to disorganizs the Democracy, as far AZ their
feeble power extends, by new Pierce electoral
ticket which they are actually preparing, and
that, too, at the very time when third party is
likely to arise under the auspices OF jenkins
and Stephens, and when a formidable Scott
movement is developing itself throughout all
Georgia Thus have the Supplemental Demo-
Gratis dared to endanger the fair prospects Of
Pierce and King, and Thus by the stubborn ar
rogance Of their proposition openly proclaimed
to the country, that with words of harmony on
their lips, there are thoughts Of treachery in
their breasts.
On these charges we now arraign them before
the grand inquest of the national Democracy.
BY our brethren of other States let this quarrel
be adjndged.
With whit show Of reason the Supplemental
demand change of the regularly nominated
ticket, let history determine. That ticket was
placed in the field by convention to whose de-
n, of huo and had Of
opinion were cordially invited. True, our over
lures were booted. True, every effort was made
by these same men to prevent reorganization
of the Democratic party True, the Union Dem
ocrats, flushed with an apparent victory, des
pissed tho friendly propositions Of what was
deemed pc ~erless minority. But the invita-
ton was made in good faith, and if it was re
jected the fault ia theirs, not ours The came
sent delegates to Baltimore, and t cir
honorable reception is its all sufficient endorse
ment by the national Democracy.
That portion Of the Democracy which has
been in favor of reorganizing in good faith, al
ready present a thoroughly united organization,
having ticket already in the field which they
intend to sustain in an unbroken column of for
ty thousand men. Such were our numbers when
our convention was held, and they have increas-
ed. and are increasing by daily accessone.
It is hardly credible that the handful of men
styling themselves Union Democrats, should
venture to dictate change of the ticket, when
it is conceded throughout Georgia that the Sup
Elemental Democrats, all told, will not number
five thousand men, Moreover, that they have
no separate organization, no independent exist
ence whatever, for after all the hollow preten-
sions made by their delegates at Baltimore, they
have already hurried back to the embraces of the
Constitutional Union party. This proposition
il sufficiently attested by the notorious fact that
they have participated in the primary meetings
of that organization, and are now calmly await
ing the action of the Union convention to decide
whether they will support Pierce or Scott!
What business have good Democrats with such
conventions? What need have honest friends
of Pierce and King Of new tickets, to be formed
at Constitutional Union assemblages, and by
such reliable Democrats as Alexander Hamilton
Stephens and Robert Toombs We warn the
Democracy against the trckery of this conyen.
ton. 1t is gotten up and will be controlled by
the worst enemies the Democratic party of
Georgia ever had, which stamps the whole move
ment as sinister in its objects, and abundantly
justfes the assumption that there is treason
ahoat.
This, then, is the position Of things in Georgia.
The leaders of few thousand Democrats who
have no organization of their own, and whose
arrogant pretensons have been signally repudi-
ated by the national Democracy, obstinately re
fuse to support a ticket fairly nominated by a
regularly called State convention, who represent
a compact and solid body of men, numbering
upwards of forty thousand, and who have been
cordially endorsed as the true Democracy of
Georgia, by their brethren of the entire country
We close this article with significant fact
One of the most noisy and Jealous the Union
Supplemental delegates to Baltimore, we under
stand, now heads tho Scott movement in Mil
edgeville! "Put this and that together" and
the fact is very suggestive.
This article appeared on the 18th ult., two
days before the convention met. We have
seen a Geographic history Of its proceedings
The mongrel sffair has fallen to pieces, and be-
come tripartite from the weight of it's discord
ant materials. One part nominated Pierce and
King, and put up an electoral ticket in opposi-
ton to the regular ticket which has for months
been flying at the mast head Of every Demo
cratic paper in the State--it also manifested its
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