American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-09-18
The Democratic Central Executive
Committee.

The state DemOcfatlc Executive
Committee, In secret caucus, assem-
bled, ON Wednesday, the Sth inst,
decided that it was inexpedient to
call a convention of the people, but
that the Democratic party should
support the platform and candidates
Of the National Union Republican
party---that sixty>tive thousand
Democrats should support" less
chan two thousand boiling Radicals I!
Was ever such impudent usurpation
heard ofl And it is no less folly
than usurpation F.; for the ostensible
reason for its being "inexpedient"
to call q convention of the people,
was that Democracy in convention
would decide to support the IDENTITIES,
and that this, being formal action
might prejudice the Administration
against the party. But is the action
Of the committee in officially ads
ing the people to support the boilers,
not far more apt to cause the party
to be suspected of being Democratic ?
OF course 1t is, and the excuse of the
Committee for not fulfilling its high
duty by calling the people together
to take counsel in this great crisis,
is as fimsy as it is palpably false.
The true reason for not calling a
convention, is the fact that the com
mittee feared that the people would
not exactly carry out its plans
would not turn the great political
wheel to grind the axes of members
Of the committee. Yet this commit
tee derived it's existence from the
peOple--every official breath it
breathed came from the people-and
it should have been simply the
mouth-piece for its peoples thoughts
the organ to obey it's peoples will {;
but, far from this, it assumed to con
troll and direct, and finally to sell
ont that people to their foes. In this
daringly usurpatious action, the COM
mittee have displayed either a
treacherous disregard for the inter
est of the State, or an equally crimi-
nal ignorance of what the good OF
our country demanded. In either
case, it has shown that it was totally
unworthy of the high trust reposed
init. II our people should be held
for years under the CALLING yoke Of
Congressional tyrauny-if, in after
years, it sl&ll be said OF Mississippi
that she disappointed the hopes O
the world, and betrayed the only
party that could have saved her from
oppression-M ississippians will know
to whom they owe their degradation
Ito whom they are indebted for tn,
contumely that will he heaped upor
them-and they will never forge
and never forgive the treachery on
imbecility Of those who shall hav
caused them to be disgraccd. Whei
this shall have come to pass-whe
the Fifteenth Amendment shall hay
become u law in our State-when W
shall have seen the last vestise G
States rights torn from us, with, az
parently, our own sanction given t
the robbery-Our own endorsement
to the despoiler--then will Mississil
plans curse the men who have mis
guided their great political ship
who have disregardcd the voice {
the people, and sold the great Dem
ocratic party, which was ilushe
with great victory over unite
foe-whO have stacked our arms an
surrendered our organization to
mere handful of bilinguist opp,
nents then will it be considcrc
~ disgrace to have been a member
the Democratic Central Exccutiv
COMMUNICATION will the scorn of
betrayed people be east upon I'll
heads OF Brown, Barksdale & G.
Already is their descent TO Il,
Avernian lake begnn-alrcady
VWblic indignation hurled at then
Let them remember, that even ..
the lowest deep, there is low,
depth"
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