American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-07-10
Chairman II0adley's Remarks Before
the National Convention.

| the National Convention.
Hon. George Hoadlcy. the Temporary
Chairman of the Democratic National
Convention, Oh assuming the chair, de-
livered the following spirited and inter-
esting address:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE Ma
TIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: / obey this
call to the chair of this Convention with CRATE
| full acknowledgements of the confidence re-
posed in me. 1t shall be my sedulOus care to
prove worthy of your nomination.
Fellow-delegates, fellow Democrats, thanks
for your welcome, your generous welcome,
only adequate response can be, the strictest
| impartiality in the exercise of power Ing
make mistakes. trust you will forgive them
am sure you WILL as soon as i satisfy you
friend, even the partisan, Of my. favorite can
| ddatc, your officer / shall know neither
friend nor foe of any candidate, but discharge
| my duty with absolute fairness and fidelity OF
| purpose OF this you have my pledge
| Gentlemen of the Convention: Our fathers,
dstrusting popu.ar choice, established in each
| state an Electoral College, to whose unpledged
action they sought to intrust the election of
| the Chief Magistrates of the Republic Their
| children, taught by experience, have wisely
modified the Constitutional scheme by an I'M
written amendment which combines the adj
vantages of tho Electoral system with the di-
| rect popular vote, while it preserves to each
suit. Conventions of delegates chosen by the
people of two or more parties have already
mt the coming election AMI another great col
lege of electors is now assembled in this hall.
The I'm. oiice you now MI, though not defined by
need not say that in this assembly it will NOS
be doubted that you are not delegates
from Congressional districts, but repre-
| sentatives of those indestructible units of our
indcstructible Union-the States. Custom has
defined your duties. They are, to con-
struct platform and to nominate candidates.
You are not, however called together to create
present bubble to The en@ ip prn
| ciple docs not date its birth from you assem-
bling, and Will not perish with the success or
defeat of the candidates you nominate. 1t is
eternal-a Divine fire burning in the hearts of
men II qnckens the Thought of the states,
doubles the energies of the toiler 1t Il found
tn es amd in the Truth he
Amer lean patriot, that all men are created
equal. 1t is the unrelenting foe OF despotisn
and of communism whether open sought
to be hidden under the disguise of paternal
Governments. Its beneficent Office in political
affairs is to secure TO every man the utmost
possible liberty of action consistent with equal
liberty to every other.
Yours is not, therefore, the Office of invcu-
ton, but of PRONUNCIATION; not to discover, but
TO declare and to apply the Democratic princi-
and that this principle may have living force
In public concerns. you will nominate candi-
dates whose election will insure its full fruition
during the next Presidential term. These
duties no Democrat doubts that you will WORTH
But you are called to their discharge this
day under circumstances of no CONNIE n mo-
mercy erant snail in the history OF our Repnt
lie never recu:. Four years ago the Demo-
cratic party in Convention assembled Mt st.
Louis, announced to the country its PLATFORM,
and nominated its candidates two OF the
foremost statesmen of the Nation Both then
astic devotion, and the most ardent private
friendship. And Samuel J: Tiden and Thomas
A. Hendricks were elected President and Vice
President of the United States-elected
fairly as George Washington or james
that the Chief Magist rate Of the Nation has for
more than three years been one whom the
people ana eieo,orS a rs 70 h mon
beret in all generations. OF the fraud OF tho
Repubiean party OF itS indeiiy TO repgRl
the right Of popular election, that vt Il prin-
cipal of republics, rather than lax its ho!d
upon power, and of the loyalty of the Eemo-
cratic patty even to the forms of law, of the
confidence that the will of the people must
waits for the full fruition of i S hoi es until
March 1. 1881, but no longer-no longer. unless
defeated at the polls. if beaten fairly, we shall
submit. repeat, we shall submit and again
wait; but If again successful, no cunning de-
Of our rights The Democratic party will
never again appear before n tribunal falsely
of testimony but not blind to the reckoning
finger of fraud. But, though we failed to in
augurate our candidate, our cause was not,
even for the moment, wholly lost. Retribu-
tive justice visited without delay the imme-
date author of this infamy. The courts OF
proposed the theft of its State Government
and the stern refusal of the Democratic House
dollar to continue the subjugation of South
Carolina and Louisiana soon forced the OPP
Rmained of the carpetsbag 9iovernments of the
South, except the S110,0OOO03 increase In the
public debt, which they contrived in the seven
years of misgovernment to heap upon its inn
poverished people. Yes. another trace re-
manned. Louisiana, entitled by the Consiit,-
ton to two Senators, is represented by
The seat of the other is filled by II delegate
from band of Villains, never recognized as
Government, and long since disposed of-some
to fatten upon the Federal Treasury and some
to eat the bread of exile.
The years that have passed since the theft of
the Presidency have been years of plentcous
harvest. Tho labor Of the husbandman has
"tickIed with the hoe and has laughed with
hai vest" The benson of the Most High has
been upon us, al the opportunities offered
by His gracious favor wisely employed in tho
economies of two successive Democratic Con-
crosses, have made p ssible that partial meas
urc of resumed payment OF the National fiOat-
ing debt and that equalization of values enllet
by the Republican party the " re sumption OF
awakened by foreign demand and the abund-
ant domestic products were gifts to the Ameri-
can pc Dple from higher source than any
agency of the Republican party. No soldiers
kept the peace of the corn-tields; no Return
Supervisors or Deputy Marshais assisted in
the gathering into the garncrs, and no Elef torai
They were the frui 8 of labor, the gracious
gifts to the labOrcr of Him who Is the largest
Democratic hierarchy. We have been spared
one great danger since the SIN day OF June,
1850.
1t has been certain that the usurper will not
be Immediately followed by the monarch, but
the third term is postponed, not ayerted, and
the real danger is not in the third term so
much as in the Republican party, which makes
the third term possible. Bonaparte did not
crown himself Emperor until Comparison
had corrupted France When more than
three-fifths of any political party invoke a
- savior of society,"" that party is already so
poisoned with Imperialism that it has become
itself a menace to the republic far more for
midable than any mischief it processes to fear
DR. any danger it wis organized to repel. The
remedy, gentlemen, for this and for al! other
Ills of State is eternal vigilance. This is mt
)nce the price and the protector of liberty.
This vigilance, already newly quickened
among the people from whom you come. con-
timed here and hereafter, is sure to bring
victory to the Democratic principles and the
candidates. victory SO full of
nope for the Republic that even the "melan-
,holy days of Novcmbe-' shall he radiant
With joy. and on the wings of the stormy
Winds of March shall be waited blessings.
Some of our Republican friends
ire finding fault with the Sun on ac-
count of the disclosures about General
fairfield. This is very unreasonable.
These disclosures were made years ago.
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