The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-29
THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.

T'OHt tN6 A'' Il = ItHeS.
One of the Democratic organs in this city,
exulting over the report that three-fourths
of the members just elected to the Georgia
Legislature are Democrats, declares that the
fact Ensures an impeachment" of Governor
Bullock. OF course, impeachment is regarded
as equivalent to removal. The same line of
action has been adopted in North Carolina
whose Legislature is now Democratic Gov
ernor Holden has been impeached, and his
conviction and expulsion from Office are
heralded as foregone conclusions.
We are not admirers of either Holden or
Bullock. The Republican defeat in North
Carolina was due in a great degree to the
odlum fastened upon the party by the high
handed doings of the Governor. In his
eagerness to make sure of victory, he really
rendered success impossible. The Republi-
can party suffered from his harsh and impo-
litic methods of promoting its interests In
like manner the party in Georgia may attri-
butte not few of its reverses to internal
jealousies and dissensions; and these, again,
are in good part due to Governor Bullock
unseemly and indiscreet attempts to manage
the party with special reference to his own
ends. Neither Holden nor Bullock, then,
has justified the confidence reposed in him.
Both have done more harm than good to the
party that elected them.
1t does not follow however, that the Demo-
cratic majority in either State will be justi-
fed in the adoption of extreme measures to
hasten vacancy in the Governors quarters
A glance at the preliminary proceedings in
the case of Holden, and at the accusations
preferred against him, suffices to discover
the partisan animus which forms the founda-
ton of the whole affair. We cannot doubt
that the same remark will apply to the i'm
peachment of Bullock, if he really be i'm
peached The purpose of the Democracy in
Georgia, as in North Carolina, is, not to up
hold the Constitution and law, but to rid
themselves of an opponent who has incurred
their special displeasure.
There is no justice or propriety in the pro-
ceeding, and assuredly there is no wisdom.
The spirit it evinces-a spirit of bitter hostil-
ity to Republican Executive, and of impa-
tience un der his administrations not cal
culated to strengthen the movement for gene
raj amnesty, or to secure the admission to
Congress of Senators and Representatives
whose eligibility is not unchallengeable.
With what grace can the North Carolina
Legislature ask that Vance, the Senator
elect, shall be allowec to take seat despite
his disabilities, while the Legislature itself
exemplifes its partisan intolerance and
proscriptive tendencies as against Republi-
can office holder? AS for the Georgia Demo
Gratis, they should ere now have learned the
virtue of moderation, and the profitableness
of decency in political matters. The pro-
longed exclusion of the State from the privi-
legss of the Union has been attributable
solely to their obstinate and contemptuous
disregard of law and equity. If they now urge
a ruthless partisan war against the Governor,
simply that he may be got out of the way be-
fore the expiration of his term, they will show
how little they have learned from the less ons
of the past.