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squarely, and honestly, it will split the Demo.
cratic party of the Union into Fragments
The Sacanndh Republican (also anti Demo
craticl has the following remarks on the above
platform:
>" The uniDadtum Of the Georgia Democracy
will never be conceded by any National Con
vention, and much less by that which is to as
semble at Cincinnati. OF this the leaders in
this State are well convinced. They have laid
down what will appear to most Southern men
as an unexceptionable platform, with the view
OF binding together and consolidating the het-
erogeneous organization under which they car
RED the recent election, and for the further
purpose of winning over fresh recruits to their
ranks, and weakening the opposition of the
American party. Their platform is not wholly
the work OF patriotism; policy lent its influence,
as well as love Of country.
Having accomplished their purpose-having
induced the American party of Georgia to capt.
ulate, to. lay down their arms-the leaders will
go up to Cincinnati and present their ultima
fum. One of two things will be the result:
l. The Convention, composed for the great.
or part of Northern delegates, will be called
upon to decide between the Northern and
Southern wings of the party. If ii accepts the
Georgia proposition, the Northern division will
be riven into factions, and the nominee of the
Convention defeated. If the proposition be re-
jected, then the Southern, or at least the Geor-
gia, delegates will return home, and unfurl the
banner Of rebellion. Nay, more: they will
nominate sectional candidate and organize a
sectional party, and thus take the first step to-
wards breaking up The Union Of these States.
Let the dispassionate men of the country think
of this.
-. If the Convention, unwilling to encoun-
tor Scvlla on the ono ban nd or CbarvbIic nm tba
other, should neither accept nor reject the prop.
osi;ion, as it probably will not, then the wise
men of the body will come together and devise
a platform which will mean all things to all
men-a Delphic production, full of promise to
the North and encouragement to the South.
This the delegates from Georgia will be prevail
ed upon to accept as an cquiraient to their uiti-
nahum, and, returning home, their work and
their patriotism will be held up to the admra-
ton OF the country. If, in the mean time, the
American party shall have consented to await
the action of the Cincinnati Convention, or
shall have committed itself in any way to its
decision, it will find itself completely circum-
vented for it Will then be too late to call a
Convention and TO bring forward candidate.
We conclude, then, that if the Convention
accepts the proposition Of the Democratic party
of Georgia, 1T will lead to widespread agitation
at the North that if it rejects it, it will call into
being a sectional party in the South and that
if it does neither, it will at least adopt set of
high-sounding but meaningless resolutions, by
which both sections, and especially the South,
will be cheated. II, however, we are mistaken,
and the Cincinnati Convention shall do what is
right, both in regard to the platform it adopts
and the candidate it dominates, no Democrat
in Georgia will be more rejoiced than ourselves.
We shall in that event not only not offer any
factious opposition, but if the American party
shall not come full up to its duty, we will 90
further, and counsel union of hearts and
hands throughout all the borders of the South"
On the night of the 9th instant, the "Amcri-
party held a meeting in the Representa-
tives Chamber at Milledgeville. Judge Cone
presided, several addresses were delivered, and
resolutions adopted declaring that the Ameri-
can party Of Georgia was an open organiza-
ton, based upon the principles Of the Macon
and Philadelphia platforms, and providing for
a Convention of the party to be held at Mlledge-
vile on the second Thursday in December next
The Macon Messenger says that there is no
political organization represented at Milleage-
vile, or in esse in Georgia, for the next Presi-
Dental canvass. Organization must wait upon
the action of the Cincinnati Convention"