The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-29

| we greatly underrate both their spirt and their
good sense, they will refuse to parake Of 1t at the
| ballot box in November.
80. II was intended a practical surrender
| from the known fact in the history Of elections
| thatthe mass OF the voters never remain NEURAL
and, having ticket in the field TO represent their
peculiar sentiments and feelings, very naturally
resort to the one or the other OF those which are
before them as a mere choice between evils. The
practical result OF the omission TO put forth a
Union electoral ticket will, therefore, be to throw
the Union Democrats upon the necessity of voting
the present secession ticket, or Of refusing to vote
at all. No man doubt to which one of these
| alternatives the proceedings a. Atlanta lead.
| "3 il was surrender not only without authori-
YIN direct contradiction to the very object for
which the meeting cecd-but 1t was sur
render by mere handful OF men who had no right
to commit the great body OF the Union Democracy
I" such an act Of degradation. So lar from turn
ing out 10 be the MASS melting OF the party,
oal!C d by the executive committee, we have not
heard the whole number Of persons present esti.
mated higher than two hundred and fifty nor less
than fifty. Ii was about upon par with the Scott
| meeting which assembled there "A few days before,
| and, upon the most favorable calculation hfty in
number less than the great mass meeting Of three
hundrt d which we learn recently met at Boston TO
nominate Daniel Webster for the Presidency. We
adduce the smalness of the number to prove that
they had not the warrant of numbers to override
the specific objects for ,ohich the meeting called;
and this we aver from the record TO have been,
first, a compromise ticket between the two
wings; and secondly, in failure thereof TO nomi
nate one for which Union Democrats might vote
consistently with their rights members of the
Democratic party Of Georgia, entitled to q fair
| representation upon the ticket in support of the
National Democratic nominations.
| a. As if to make the surrender more garing
and unjust, we are informed that the meeting
CONDEMNS the policy Of the Southern Rights wing of
the party in refusing TO compromise the electoral
ticket
"Thus it is that, after having met for the avowed
purpose Of effectng compromise ticket, and after
having 30 reasonable a demand rejected by the
Secessioniss, they come to the conclusion to peck
ct the wrong, and either to vote for those who in
hicted it, or to place the great body of their pol
cal friends under the moral necessity of doing 30 |!
Instead Of carrying out the noble maxim of General
Jackson--'Ask nothing but what is right, and sub
init to nothing that is wrong'-they have i'm proved
both upon his wisdom and his spirit by stopping
in the middle; they have dared to ask what is
right, but, being refused, have concluded that it
was best to submit to what is wrong, when it was
their oppressors The question presented at the
head of this article for the consideration of the
great body Of Union Democrats, now recurs:
Twill they return slaves to their Southern
Rights masters? who, in separate convention,
| and at time when the two wings of the party
were at upon questions growing out Of the
Compromise, put forth an electoral ticket of their
own exclusive choice-composed exclusively with
but one single exception in Mr.. Flournoy) of men
| of their wing Of the party-and which they obst-
nateiy refuse to remodel upon the princi pie of
compromise mutual concession-the only prn-
ciplc Of party reunion that can be tolerated by
freemen."
The Cassville (Ga. Standard, Democratic
paper of the same class, is not less marked in
its reputation of the Atlanta Convention. We
will add an extract from the minority report
presented to that body by Union Democrats as
confirming and illustrating the structures of
these journals. 1t is as follows:
notwithstanding the overtures for Cancellation
and harmony among the friends of Pierce and
King, made by the Union party, we have failed to
secure honorable compromise Of the difficulties
which have divided We have for two years
maintained, against the fiercest opposition. the
principles OF Pierce and King. and we would glad,
ly again nave witnessed the triumph OF those prln-
ciplcs in Georgia; but that triumph. in oorosP-
ton, can never be effected through the Southern
Rights organization. The principles of that organ
ization and of the men who compose it are at war
with the principles of the National Democratic
party, and sectional and revolu ionary in their
tendency. Consistently. therefore, with prin-
ciples, and, in the language of once distinguished
} Union man, with our self respect we cannot
: think of giving our support to the ticket in
the field"