American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-18

fOuG t0OuSanu NOlclS, without Hi5
tinciion OF race, color. or prevIon:
condition of scrviiude--afteP all thi
and more, if We could think of ii
there assembled in the city at Can
ton, August 4th. II iDaSS convention
made up OF twenty three white mcr
and fifty negroes
Preceding this mighty gathcGjr!
of tie masses, We had heard niue.
of great principles violated aud 81
cred rights trampled uron. W.
were told that the people were tul,
ly aroused and we've marching witt
giant strides upon the petty usnrp-
ers, who. in derosation of ancient
usages and immemorial customs
had undertaken to ''carry the Dcm>
ocratic party in their breeches
! pocket" There was deep excite
hent, said the Boilers, throughout
the borders of our county, and tie
Navc of popular Indignation Was
rolling Oh with resist!esS power.
We were warned of the awakened
wrath of abe people and some pro
fessed to hear in the distance the
mntterings Of an approaching thun-
der storm, destined to strike down
and overwhelin the evA-doers.
How indignant must the people
hate been with the action Of
the July convention, to have
sent up this tremendous mass OF
malcontenrs! and where did they
come from q? AT least nineteen>
lwentieths Of the famous seventy
three-''hlacl1 spirits and white
spirits, blue spirits and grey
were from hHat No. 1, and very lit
tie less than the same proportion
were dwellers within the corporate
limits of Canton. OF the negroes,
Phil. Sanders was the only one, to
the best of our knowledge and be-
lief, who ever announced himself a
Democrat or expressed a Democrat
ic sentiment prior to August 4th,
1879. The great majority of them,
as we are assured, orc mere oilers,
such as We meet here every day,
upon our street.
And yet the managers Of the |
August movement were not asham-
I'd to call this miserable THING Il /
mass convention of the Democratic
party! Having no connection
whatever with the regular De nos
,ratic Conservative organization
rot even bearing its name-it yet
Ias the brazen effrontery to set up
/ claim to be the only legitimate
of the convention of ~
Having all the evidences of bas-
ardy about it-anta niger bastardy /
It that-it has still the check TO
leciare, IN the words of the auto-
rat: "'Cbe Democratic car, on
which our candidates have taken
'assage, has Kept on the very track
aid down by the convention of
SIP
Except on the very track, indee,ll
hat convention appointed i, f
and othe rs an Execuiiye +
to manage the affairs OF
he Democratic Conservative Party, \,
nj that party, by an immense ma 4,
,rity-a majority approaching al {
lost to unanimity, ratified their
ctioD. Jae Handy Esq. and others,
ho called together that patched !,
ud piebald thing in August, held ,
0 commission from the convention d
t ~, and hence the car, freightcd '
18th two boiling Democrats and y
yO cOlOred Radicals. is not on the v
Fry track laid down by that body, t
ut is dashfng along the perilous
ath of rebellion, and will soon lie 5
in the slough Of tles> u
Dnd or unloading its freight at a l
adical depot. "
Has it he yer occurred to the able Il
wyer, who wrote the reply to the
larion, that, looking TO the subs
ance of things, the July convem- =
OH, consisting of seveuty-five good
I'd true men from every portion
the county, by whatever name II
lown anil designated, had more of /
q elements aiId essentials of II
E mDcratic mass meeting, than the y
venty-three worthless who ASSEM-
I'd at the courthouse, August 4rh, u
! the call Of the town clierP Can y
be possible thai IA trained intellect :,
n be so blinded by passion and %
y judice, or be so influenced bv I'll
disllkes and preferences, NJ
to reach the absurd cDncinSioo. ~
at the seventy three were more oi k
mass, than the SeveHtY~ five. or hat ii
e ferIaeF were better organizrd Il
ii qualified TO represent the will cI
ID wishes of the Madison Demos ST
acy than the latter? /
In this connection, we would call II
tentiOn TO a certain inconsistency l.
the part of the Opposition, more N
nrked and striking than the many ia
hers which have characterized It's W
urse. In his elaborate reply to ii
e Clarion, the author thereof in III
the grievances which W
lied upon anxious patmots for lie I'll
psS StataS that the Executiy.. m