The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-11-27
Georgia Conservative Convention.


vention, composed Of the conservative,
and we may add, the patriotic white ele-
ment Of that State, now threatened with
subiection to negro and Radical rule. Vir-
ginia, the Mother OF Stutes,' is moving
in the same direction, and will hold Il
similar Convention on the 1lth proXimo.
Georgia, it is now understood, will do the
same. Tho Conservative Press of our
State were never more united upon any
political movement than they are upon
this. The error of Inactivity must no Ion
ger prevail. The white race inhabting
the State from the seaboard to the noun
tains; from the Savannah to the Chatta-
hoochee; from centre to circumference,
embracing every acre of land within its
wide limits, must remain no longer mac
tive spectators of the iron chain that is
being forged to bind them to negro and
Radical rule. They;must unite to resist
the monstrous outrage-unite to resist IN
such lawful manner-as may be deemed
advisable after deliberation in Convention.
The errors of the past are naught but
warnings for the future if they teach, or
are designed to teach, any useful lesson.
Had there been any organization, any un-
derstanding, between the opposers OF the
Sherman-Shcllabarger Military Bills in
habiting the different sections of our State
at the late so-called Convention election,
the result in all probability, would have
been different But there was none. In
action was the policy in some sections,
while fatal action prevailed in others. We
must prepare now for the final struggle.
The mongre concern that will soon as
semble in this city will make Constitu-
tion for Georgia. Viewed in its most ia
vorable aspect, that Constitution no one
having any regard for truth, will attempt
to deny, will embrace every provision OF
the military reconstruction cnactmcpts OF
Congress. These of ofsthemselves will fas-
ten upon the State negro supremacy and
Radical rule How.ssmuch further the
mongrel concern will go remains to be
seen. That it will attempt still further to
degrade the white Grace of the South; to
cajole to its supporIseme of them, while
it will dcspoil othersa. is evident from the
lights before us, and we must prepare,
when it is presented to the people OF the
State tor ratification. ..by united action, to
prevent its ratification. Hence the ne
ccssity for the proposed Convention to
meet in Macon on the 5th day of Dcccm-
ber next. We trust that every county in
the State will be represented in that Con-
vcnton by delegation composed of good
and true men, whose manhood and whose
blood have suffered no degeneracy j.; who
still assert the supremacy Of the white
race, and maintain, what is true that this
is a white mans GoNernmcnt, and must
remain so, or the home of their fathers
and their own home, can no longer be
their dwelling places on earth.
Let, then, the several counties in the
State proceed at once to hold primary
meetings and nominate delegates to the
proposed Conservative Convention! The
sooner this is done, the better. The orror
ofinactivity must not be repeated Says
a Virginia cotcmporary, writing on the
same subject "Errors are never entirely
powerful unless they Become the rule OF
conduct, and the error we committed in
that case (the case of the Convention
election in Virginia,) may be turned TO
good account, if it teach us by its facts to
avoid its repetition" And SO say We;
let us profit by experience, and pulling all
together make one more effort to save the
State from negro domination and Radical
rule-Atanta hatclligencer.