Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-11
ALABAMA.
Address frcm the Central Executive Com
nlttes Of the pe#osratic aaa
Conservative Party.

We make room this morning for
the address of the Central Executive
Committee of the Democratic, which
is, of course, the Conservative, party
of Alabama:
To the People of Alabama:
The Executive Committee of the
Democratic and Conservative party of
the State, after consultation with rep
men from all sections,
have decided to call convention, to
be held at Montgomery, on the first
day of September next. We hope
each county will send a delegation of
its best men.
The gross frauds and felonies, per-
petrated by the party now in power,
It's inveterate hostility to free govern
ment under Constitutional form, its
repeated efforts to destroy freedom of
speech, as well as OF the press, by mar
tial law its imposition Of the most
enormous taxes upon the labor and
capital of the country; its increasing
efforts to create strife between the
races; in a word, its enmity to all we
love in government and cherish in
memory, is such as to demand a full
representation in the Convention, of
the intelligence, patriotism and, virtue
of the State, as grand inquest, to
frame an Indictment and arraign them
before an indignant and outraged
people.
The Convention itself will deter
mine the number of votes to which
each county will be entitled.
All who are in favor of relieving
the people of Alabama rom the rule
of the base men who nowtill so many
of her offices are entitled to repre-
sentadon in the Convention, and in
order that all shades of opposition
may be fully represented, and that
the party may have the benefit OF the
advice and united scounsels of all op-
posed to Radicalism, we trust that
large delegations will attend from
each county in the State. Where
it has not already been done,
we advise that county conven-
ticns be held without delay, and
full delegations appointed, and when
there is any difference of opinion as
to the best mode of attacking the
common enemy, let the delegations
be so framed as to embrace all shades
Of difference, so that thelConventiOn,
after dull discussion and considera-
ton, may adopt a policy upon which
all can stand shoulder TO shoulder in
the struggle with fraud and cOrrup-
ton, upon which we are about to en-
ter. We advise that county conven-
tions be held at once, for the purpose
OF perfecting county and township or.
ganiZations. Let clubs be formed In
every election precinct in the State,
and all honest men be prepared tC
come forward on the Sth of Nevem.
ber next and cast their ballots in favor
of reform.
The election Jaws now In force in
this State were designed apparently
to enable the party in power to per
petuate fraud, and its accomplishment
can only be prevented by united ac
ton and a determined purpose that 6
fair election shall be held.
The chairmen of county executive
committees will please forward theil
names and a list of delegates from
their respective counties to the chair
man of the State Executive Com
mittee. sle,. e str-rsaT
Montgomery. H. ClantOn, Chair.
man; ID. s. Troy, VS.. Murphy. Is
District, Dist = ,: M n. ey' Henry Henry s. $
II. Powell. 3D. District, r. F. Ligon
w. II, Cruikshank. 4th District, "
III. NorthiDgton, j. G.. Harvey. 5tf
District, John II. Francis, John W
Young. 9th District, Daniel Cole
man, Oliver S. Kennedy.