The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-27
THE SOUTH.
Spirit Of Ex-RebsI Politicians.

A despatch from Atlanta, Georgia. 231 inst,
TO the Cincinuah Gazette gives the following
venlion In that C ty on that day.
Lhe Rebel Democracy have for one day at
Convention assembled this morning, aud u so
their great state mass meeting, the latter of
numbers OF people commenced coming lnto
the city as early as last evening, and tnfs
morning the whole place was alive with
shouts of multitudes. the music of bands
and the roar of cannon. The DelegaJ
Convention met at 10 a. M, at Dav,s'
Hall, and was organized by calling w Rel
ding, of Harris county. to the chair. The roll
of counties being called. all in the State were
represented. A com uittee was appointed to
select permanent officers. While they were out
Colonel j. Il. Weems was called on for n speech,
who told them that the result of their success
in the contest before them would be to expel
from Georgia the entire brood of Northern
vagrants, Northern rapsc1llions, and Northern
TaupeTs, and the Southern miscreants now iu-
feS ing her. This sentiment was received with
the usual compliment of Rebel yell.
AL. Ramsey, of Columbus, m ade a violently
Rebel speech, declaring that in the late war the
South did nothing but maintain their rights;
upon her. and that the very day the war COM
menced the Constitution was overJhrown. Mr..
Clarke made speech pledging himself before
God to fight to the last the new Governments
that bad been set up IN the South, and then the
Convention adj jouln ned sine die.
The mass meeting was assembled under q
great artificial grove on the public square. Five
thousand people were present Bob Toombs,
leaders OF the Rebel Democracy, ali made
speeches. Toombs took the Drosd ground that
all the action of the Government in reference
to the South for tne last three years. was void
and OF no efft ct. Cobb followed in the same
strain, and Hill poured forth torrent of dis.
loyal malignity and blasphemy which will
astonish and alarm the country. The whole
spirit OF the speeches was violent and revolu.
tionary In the extreme, ToOmbs alone making
any pret6nse of decency or moderation"
Adoption OF the Fourteenth Amendnont
Favored by A. III. Stephens.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Ne,O Era of the 22d inst, q
Republican paper says:--
'Ihe Hon. A. II. stephens deserves great
credit for aiding in the passage of the bill re-
storing Georgia TO the Union. We look upon
this as one of The wisest acts of his life Mr..
Stephens is statesman, while Mr.. Toombs is q
mere politician. The one would save the State,
while the other would destroy IL. Now that we
have reconstruction, let us have peace"
A despatch from Atlanta TO the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel Gadically Democratic)also
says
1T is reported all over Atlanta, and believed
to be certainly q fact, that Hon. Alex lndar ii.
tion of the Constitutional Amendment. and
also advocated the strib ing ont OF the "Relief'
clause from the new Constitution. He now it
is said, recommends that mutual conciliation
be practised by both sides, and also that there
b. Q studious avoidance of harsh epithets and
towsrus the r. publicans This ire ported action
of Mr. stephens has caused much surprise
here. and elicits some harsh comments.
MIR. Stephens name Is now mentioned favor
ably by great many as proper candidate for
United States Senator.
To the great surprise of a good many General
Howell Cobb bitterly opposed the ratification
OF the Constitutional amendment AT one time
pa' sage, but 1t has proven TO have been
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