The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-08-03

little consequence. My view contem-
plates not hundreds prescribed, but
millions who are denied the right to be
ruled and reptseutcdhyo one Of their un-
fettered choice. Prescription We're ab
surd if they did not wish to elect the
very men who they are forbidden to
choose. l have Il profound regard for
the people of that part OF New England
wherein l was born, in whose common
schools ! was taught; and rank no other
people above them in Intelligence, ca
can do many things we'll and some adj
mirabiy, there is one thing which am
sure they cannot~.Wisely or safely do,
and that is the selection for States re-
mote from, and unlike their own, of
the persons by whom these States are
to be represented in Congress. If they
could do this to good purpose, then Re
publican institutions were unfit, and
aristocracy the only true political sys-
tenn. Yet what have we recently wit
messed: Zcbulon B. Nace, the UNI
questioned choice ola large majority
of the present Legislature of North Car
olina, a mojority backed by Il majority
of the people who voted ut it's election,
refused II scat in the Federal Senate, to
which he was fairly chosen, and the
Legislature thus constrained to choose
another i'll his place, or leave the State
unreprcsentcu for years. The voters
of Now England thus deprived North
Carolina of the Senator of her choice
and compelled her to send another in
his stcad-another who, in our late con-
test, was like Vance, II rebel, and Il
fighting rebel, but who had not served
in Congress before the war, as Vance
had, though the latter remained faith
full to the Union till after the close of
his term. protest against his disfran-
chiscmcnt of Il State, presumtively of Il
number of States on grounds so narrow
and technical as this. The fact that the
same Senate which refused Vance his
seat had been filled by another, only
serves to place in the strongest light
the indignity, the arbitrary capricious-
ness and tyranny which dictated it.
l thank you, gentlemen, that my name
is to be conspicuously associated with
yours in II determined effort to render
amnesty complete and universal, in
spirit :1s well as in letter. Even defeat
in such a cause would leave no sting,
While triumph would reward with
those victories which no blood rCdtlcns,
and which evoke no tears but those of
gratitude and JOY. Gentlemen your
platform, which is also mine, assures
me that Democracy IS not hencc1Orth
to stand for one thing and Sepub-
licansm for another, but that these
terms are to mean in politics, as they
always have meant in the Democracy,
substantially one and the same thing,
namely, equal rights regardless Of creed,
or clin,c, or color. ! hail this as Il gen
uinc new departure from outworn fcuds
and meaningless contentious, in the di-
rection of progress and reform. Wheth.
er shall be found worthy to bear the
standard of the great liberal movement
which the American people have in
aug,Irateh is to be determined not by
words but by deeds, with me, if
steadily advance; over lile, If [ ftIter
This grand array moves to achieve foi
our country her glorious heneticicnt
destiny. remain, gentlemen, yours
!, HORACE GREELEY.
To Hon. James X. Doolittle, Chairman OF
the Convention, and j.. W. Shicks. John
{. NTc,'abc and others of the committee