Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-23
DEMOCRATIC ENTHUsEAssr IN rEIT
SOUTH


The Charleston Mercury says 80 far
as the South is exclusively concerned
they could hardly have chosen better
candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency, than Mr. Seymour and Mr.
Blair We believe that the Democratic
nominees will succeed They will have
to work, and work vigorously. Unless
defeated by fraud, the majority Of the
votes of the Southern States will be cast
for them. At all events an enormous
bank Of clouds is lifted from the South.
We can now look around the horizon,
and sean the forces against us" This
feeling animates the Democracy of the
whole South. Nothing has happened
since the close of the war which has in
spired the people Of the South with SO
much hope as the nomination Of Goys
ernor Seymour. There was an immense
ratification meeting and general illumTla-
ton in honor of the Democratic NOM.
necs in Macon, Ga, on the night of the
10th INST The meeting was addressed
hg several prominent Democrats, AID the
almost enthusiasm was manifested. by all
Glasses of citizens. Alluding to the
Of the colored men Of Ma
con in the demonstration, the TtEegraDA
says
Even our colored population is rising
toa senseuf the wrongs aud outrageg, heaped
upon lhem and their Southern white
friends We noticed Ia the line Of pro-
cession the AK Company" (coloredj Of
this city, numbering seveuty-hve or one
hundred members, in their gay and hand
some uniforms, anda large number Of other
colured patriots who, in this struggle, are
going 10 stand by their country aud people.
and show Radical carpet-baggers and false
teachers that, though black, vet they have
got sense enough 10 get along 10 the Sonth
with their old friends and masters without
any outside advice from bypoerites and
otlice-seekers We counsel them to stand
firmly bY their country and peoFle and
then when the time comes, az surely il wiz,
the Southern whites will stand by them |
For, SO sure "a the sun shines, Radical |
leaders Ia a few years will seek 10 drive |
every freedman ont Of the South or ex- |
terminate them. They will yet find that |
the SOnthern people are their best friends, |
aud Northern Radicals their worst. foes
OF the ratification meeting at Colum-
bus, Georgia, on the night of the lSh
inst, the Enquire says ~.
A very significant feature Of the Demo
cratic demonstration on Thursday evening
was the presence and very Sctive partici-
patton Of a large number Of freedmen.
They seemed 20 enjoy The occasion even
more than the whites. Some Of them had
transpaTencies aud mottOcs OF their own
getting up, aud these were las John Ran
dolph said Of Ben. Hardin's Wit as keen
and rough "a q kitchen-knife Wheited on a
The Radicals are evidently
losing their control Of the negroes. Every
occasion that draws party lines exhibits a
considerable accession OF eolored men 10
he Democratic party. |,
At the Democratic ratification meeting !
IN New Orleans on the night Of the 18Th
INST, said to be the largest ever held in
.ouisiana, a large number Of the colored
population participated These facts
how the feeling that has been excited
throughout the South by the nomination
# Gov Seymour Even the negroes
ave become Disguised with Radical rule q