The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-08
RROOKHAVEN MISS, THURSDAY. JULY 8. 1880.

for admission upon no other ground
than that they have shown strength
to be able to best the party If il
does not nominate their man.
Sirs,I will mot stop to deal with these
skirmishers along the Tammany
line. However venerable and re-
spectacle they are, they do not rep
resent the force tina. represents the
bolt in New York. They say that
they will support your ticket, but
John Kelly has fourteen represeta-
tiyes from the city of New York ask
ing for seats upon this floor and OBJ
tanning them if you adopt this mi
nority report. John Kelly stood
before your Committee on Creden-
tials last night, and declared, with
all, the emphasis he could give to
language, that, il this Convention
dared to nominate certain man, ne
and his friends would bolt again.
John Kelly further stood night
before last upon the balcony of the
Burnet House in this city, and ad-
dressing a multitude, again declar-
ed that he would not support Sam
uel j. Tilden if he should be nomi'
mated by this Convention. The
Tammany Hall General Committee,
one week ago tonight, l think-pas,
sed resolutions declaring that il
Samuel J. Tilden received the nom
ination of this Convention they
would run a seperate Presidentia
ticket. or course, they will. No
gentleman, let him have free speech.
The galleries speak palmer than
men upon this platform. The gal
leries have obtained all the seats
they aspire to. The men here are
talking for them. But yet, out OF
the mouths of babes and fools we
shall arrive at a correct conclusion.
have only alluded, gentlemen, to
the causes which separated US in
New York. What hinders harmony
in the party now? These men say
they will support your ticket. Very
good, then. Where is the party
that is not united in New York
Must you give them honors and EN-
ouluments and places to win theli
support?
l close, gentlemen, by. presenting
the question with which l began
since there are other gentlemen who
contemplate appearing for the regu
lar delegation, with this proposition
Dare you-and l say it in no defiant
spirit-dare, Democratic delegates
of these States, deny to the sover-
eign power of New York the right
you SO proudly and justly assert fol
Yourselves? Pardon me for saying
that was little surprised to hear
the remark which fell from the most
eloquent gentle from Texas. "We
are regular" he says. What does
this imply? That the sovereign pow
er of New York has trampled upon
the foreheads of those gentleman
there her sign and signet accredit-
ing them to the Democracy of the
nation.
Dare you, of other States violate
her person? Dare you trample her
rights into the dust? For the whole
question You have to consider, since
our regularity is conceded upon all
hands, is to determine whether you
will give to the State of New York
the right to select her own represen-
tatives upon the floor of the Conven-
ton, or whether you shall pick them
up from visiting strangers on the
streets of Cincinnati and by the will
of other States? Deny to us that
most sacred of all righrs! Come
what says South Carolina! chival-
rous, brave, gallant, standing always
and firmly by her inherent. rights
Will South Carolina, willing to fight
and die for what she believes are the
prerogatives of her State, assist in
STRIPPING from the brows of the EN-,
pire State the signi and symbols OF
her sovereignty and majesty? What
says Virginia! with her glorious
motto, "Sic Semper Tyrannis''
Will she dare place the hand OF
violence upon the sacred person of
New York and strike her helpless
and PROSTATE to the earth, refusing
her the right to select from whom
she may of her Democratic hosts her
chosen ambassadors and represen-
tatives here?
o Democrats! one word and
have done. Our seats are not the
most important thing. The right
of a State is trembling in the bal
lance now. Whatever else you dc
pause and consider we'll before yor
strike full in the face the sovereign
queen whose credentials we beal
upon this floor.