The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-10

grateful people. He ia at this moment
the very personification Of misrule,
which We are opposing, aud his re-eleo-
tion is fraught with most deplorable con-
sequences for the welfare OF the republic,
and endangers the liberties Of our pso.
pie. On the other hand, Mr.. Greeley
has been heretofore bitter opponent OF
tho Democratic party, and the violent
attacks against myself individually,
which have. from time to time, appeared
in his journal, do not entitle him to any
sympathy and preference at my hands.
But MIR. Greeley represents the national
and constitutional principles of tho
Cincinnati platform. By his admirable
and manly letter of acceptance, he has
shown that he is fully alive to their
spirit, and that ii elected, he means to
carry them out honestly and faithfully.
Should you, therefore, in your wis
dom, decide to pronounce in favor of
the Cincinnati candidates, / shall. for
one. most oheerfnlly bury all past differ
ences. and vote and labor for their cleo.
ton with the same zeal and energy with
which I have supported heretofore. and
mean ever to support, the candidates of
the Democratic party. The American
people look with deep solicitude to YOUR
deliberations. It is for you to devise
means by which to free them from the
evils under which they are suffering: but
in order to obtain that end, you are
called upon to make every sncrifice of
party preference. However much you
might desire to fight the coming battle
for our rights and liberties under one of
the trusted leaders of the Democratic
party, it will become your duty to dis
card all consideration of party tradition
II the selection of good and wise man,
outside OF our own ranks, offers better
chance OF success. You must remember
that you are here not only as Democrats,
but as citizens OF our common country;
and that no sacrifice can be too great
which she demands at your hands,
Mr.. Belmont, after some personal re-
marks, nominated Thomas Jefferson
Randolph, of Virginia. and said it is an
auspicious omen that a scion of the
author OF the declaration of independence
is to inaugurate the struggle of the De-
mocrac,y for freedom and equality for
every American citizen, and against op-
precision and tyranny in our fair land.
Randolph was elected by accIamation.
He said:
1 am aware that the very great honor
conferred upon me by this body is due
to no personal merit of my own; but is
token OF respect to the State from
which l come, and is q recognition of
other circumstances, possibly and ven-
titious. am, perhaps, the oldest mem
Der OF this body. and life of eighty
years spent in the Democratic Republi-
can party con ,titutes me senior mem
Der. I remember freshly every Presi-
Dental contest from the first election of
Jefferson to the present time; and can
say, with truth. that I remember none
which involved higher questions of per-
sonal liberty. local self government, ho-
nest administration and constitutional
freedom than the present, or one which
demands OF our party and our people a
calmer or more earnest resource to pru-
Dental principles. It strikes mo as the
duty OF this body and of this hour to
wrest the Government from the hands
OF its present despotic and corrupt hold
ers. and to place it in honest hands, to
restore the citizen everywhere the proud
consciousness of personal right, and to
oil the States perfect integrity of local
self-government. This, with the recoe.
milton OF the supremacy OF the civil con-
stitution and the law, will. in my iudR-
ment, discharge all our present duty.
The anti Greeley Democrats assembled
between IL and O'Clock, this afternoon,
at the Maryland Institute. There were
present about 100 persons. The Con-
vention was called to order by Mr..
Flanders. It was moved and seconded
that the preliminary arrangements made
yesterday for organization be Temporal
rily continued. Van Allen called for n
reading of the report of names and dele.
gates. Blanton Duncan suggested the
committee on the subject have further
time; which was agreed to. W. 81. Muir.
rell, of Louisiana, said he understood it
was not the object of this Convention to
take any definite action, until it should
be ascertained what course had been
taken by the Baltimore Convention, on
the action OF which hinges somewhat
this Convention. It will acquiesce in
what is done by the Baltimore Conven.
ton. provided it adopts Democratic
platform and nominates Democratic
candidate. If that Convention should
fail to do so. this Convention proposes
to take some steps for the purpose of
continuing the organization of the
Democratic party. For the purpose of
furthering this object, the speaker
moved the annointmenk ~ n conn no;<too